In her bid to be the next Labour Party leader, Emily Thornberry has spoke about being brought up by a single parent on benefits, while Jess Phillips has claimed she ‘hadn’t met posh people’ before coming to Westminster
Party chair Ian Lavery says it has been ‘infuriating’ watching Labour leadership hopefuls try to ‘out-working-class each other’
‘Because the way we’ll win an election is not just by representing one class of society, but a coalition of classes – with policies that will enhance the lives of everyone.’.Jess Philips has said: ‘I thought I had met posh people before I came here, but I had actually just met people who eat olives’
Frontrunner Keir Starmer has dismissed claims that he is too metropolitan and middle class to lead the Labour Party, saying he had ‘actually had never been in any work-place other than a factory until I left home for university’. Keir Starmer has said his dad was a toolmaker who worked in factory so his son could go to university and become a lawyer
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