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Luke Tryl, the executive director of More in Common, said: “With hours to go before polls opening, our latest MRP suggests the Conservative Party are heading for the worst result in their history, while Labour look set to achieve a record-breaking majority of their own.

But Mr Tryl went on to warn it would be “a mistake to assume that tomorrow doesn’t matter”, noting that more than 100 constituencies were still too close to call.

A More in Common poll suggested Labour was on course for a majority of 210, while a YouGov study indicated Labour would get 431 seats and the Tories just 102.

On the plus side: it worked. In April, just 11% of people knew what Keir Starmer’s dad, a toolmaker, did for a living (he was a toolmaker); by June, after a relentless campaign of talking-about-the-toolmaker-thing, it was 27%, according to More in Common.

"It’s all been very vanilla, hasn’t it? Starmer’s not going to win it, the Conservatives are going to lose it,” said Lee, a small business owner giving his final verdict on what he and eight other Hitchin residents felt had been a lacklustre and unilluminating election campaign.

In doing so, he might well have been talking on behalf of almost any of the 50 focus groups More in Common has run across the country over the course of this campaign.