In possibly his best crafted speech to date, he managed to deftly articulate the “snobbery” often suffered by those, such as his own father (a factory toolmaker), who are in manual trades and are made to feel like second-class citizens 🖊️ paulwaugh
Although race and sex have rightly long been prioritised in terms of tackling discrimination, all too often class is missed out of the classroom equation – as it is missed out of much of our discourse.
This was a chance to ram home more of Starmer’s own personal backstory, something he has felt uncomfortable about over the years as he guards his personal privacy. He has only lately started talking about his sister being one of the many of the UK’s low-paid workers in social care. He only inadvertently revealed he helped her buy her home.
While wanting to help poorer students with debt, Starmer wants to help the other half of the population who do not go to university. And his team are determined not to repeat the Jeremy Corbyn approach that would have spent billions more on subsidising the middle classes through universal free university tuition, than on early years childcare that would help less well off kids and parents.
Indeed, Starmer is set to become the first Labour PM since James Callaghan who can be described as coming from a working-class home, with both parents in manual rather than professional jobs.
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