The self-styled ‘Brexit Bandit’, Slowthai is the Northampton rapper questioning what it means to be British. While his brutish live shows and barbed, barbiturate bangers may seem nihilistic, he’s really about “love and unity”, determined to find a voice in a society he doesn’t feel serves him. And he has a motor mouthed manifesto for a better Britain, finds Jordan Bassett. Pictures by Mike Prior.