John Harris: Our elected eggheads fail to grasp kitchen-table politics
On all sides, however, the revival of kitchen-table politics may well founder on a political class that has cut its teeth during 15 or so years of rude economic health. If the stereotypical 21st-century high flyers have blithely moved from university to parliament via think-tankery or Commons backrooms, can they really talk with confidence about the socioeconomic blunt end? The fact that so many are still locked into an increasingly dreamy cross-party narrative about opportunity and aspiration suggests not.
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Those allegedly brilliant new minds in Downing Street – who, just to underline their grasp of workaday struggles, are drawn from such trades as City PR and investment banking – should be worried, to say the least.
Posted on April 4th, 2008 at 4:59pm under UK politics