More Britons call themselves working class, but they are also increasingly liberal, a new survey reveals
,” the former Labour deputy leader John Prescott claimed in 1997. We are not, either objectively or in our self-perceptions.
No longer does the workplace, or the trade union, or the community bind people together, infusing them with a sense of common purpose. Class is perceived less as a collective identity than as a personal disposition, not so much an economic or political marker as a cultural identifier. Those who see fewer barriers to social mobility are more negative about immigration and more rightwing
At the same time, what the report calls “class awareness” dampens hostility to immigration. Working-class respondents who are more concerned by inequalities and think it more difficult to move between classes – that is, those who have a more politicised view of class – have more positive views about immigration and are more leftwing.
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