‘She is. Why don’t you visit the barricades yourselves; it really is an impressive sight. And now that Thomas Watson has offered two hundred grand for information, I’m hoping that any day now I’ll have the suspects in custody.’

‘Was it someone from the estate? Surely people know who they are?’

‘It’s not that easy. You can’t make an arrest without suspecting someone has committed a crime.’ Kelly tried to keep her answers generic. She didn’t let on that the CCTV was virtually useless because the men covered their faces, nor did she admit that the Cotton brothers and Tyrone Fenton had gone to ground.

‘I want to go to the barricades,’ Callum said. ‘We’re reading Orwell’s Road to Wigan Pier, studying the impact of the Great Depression on society in 1930s Britain, and I want to do a comparison to today.’

The adults in the room stared at him. Ted clapped his hands. ‘Now there’s ambition. Good for you, Callum! Kelly, you have to let him come with you. Or he could come with me. As chief coroner, I’ll need to visit the sites again myself. What about you, Josie?’

‘I don’t think…’ Johnny looked nervous.

‘Come with us if you’re worried,’ Ted said. Johnny couldn’t argue with that. It was sorted. They’d go en masse tomorrow and maybe Kelly would have time to see them.

‘It’s a movement! A social movement! That’s how it’s being reported in the press,’ Ted said, munching on another round of nibbles, this time devilled eggs.

‘The left-wing press, Dad,’ June said.

Amber snorted. ‘We all know you’re a Telegraph reader, June.’

Kelly looked at the sisters and realised that it wasn’t just her family who fought. She hadn’t seen or spoken to her own sister for a long time, and as the gap got wider, she felt less inclined to bridge it. She had two sisters right here and she watched them bicker, enjoying their exchanges.

Ted folded his arms and sighed. ‘They were like this when they were teenagers: one supported Labour, the other Tory. You’d never believe they were raised in the same household.’

‘I’d never have been able to start my business under Labour!’ June said.

‘And under the Tories, you’ll never get a pension!’ Amber retorted.

‘Girls!’ Ted stood between them. Callum and Josie laughed at the show. Amber flicked her hand as if to say the argument wasn’t worth it, and June rolled her eyes.