Emeritus Prof Christopher May on Nostr: While #Tories in government often belong to the #class whose interests they represent ...
While #Tories in government often belong to the #class whose interests they represent for the current #LabourParty, not so much.
OxfordU research suggests that increasingly (with some exceptions, i.e. Angela Rayner), for the most part Labour's leadership & (shadow) ministers are now not drawn from the #workingclass but from the professions.
Not only does this return us to the C19th, its a form of political class ventriloquism that's fraught with problems
h/t Guardian
https://osf.io/547p2/
OxfordU research suggests that increasingly (with some exceptions, i.e. Angela Rayner), for the most part Labour's leadership & (shadow) ministers are now not drawn from the #workingclass but from the professions.
Not only does this return us to the C19th, its a form of political class ventriloquism that's fraught with problems
h/t Guardian
https://osf.io/547p2/