Clive Lewis

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The Monty Python team has seen the Labour leadership contest?

The Labour leadership contest is already sketch in the comparison to Monty Python ' s Four Yorkshiremen, as the competitors in competition with each other over who is The Most humble background.

no one has claimed her family lived in a brown paper bag in a Septic Tank , as is, But it is surely only a matter of time.

have Surprisingly few trade Union leaders, come from a really working-class origin - and there is little evidence that the voters care whether she has or not.

So, what is behind the "proling-as-you" - sparring?

Rebecca Long Bailey, obviously, your staunch working-class feel in Salford to be a major asset in the fight for the next Labour leader are roots.

"I'm not a millionaire or a landlord, and I didn't want to go to a posh school," she wrote, in the.

This was a shot a not-so-subtle side to their rivals. The "millionaire" is, presumably, Sir Keir Starmer (his Wikipedia page has been repeatedly edited to remove at the end of last year, The World of "who wants to be a millionaire").

'in A city outside of London , The "landlord" was only able to investments, a reference to Emily Thornberry , the come Under Fire in The Past for their real estate.

The "posh school", the reference is harder to reach - Jess Phillips and Sir Keir went to state grammar schools, But none of The Contenders was privately educated.

Thornberry, and Starmer are forced the leadership hopefuls are often on the defensive about their roots.

In the last example, a unnerved Sir Keir began referring to himself in the third person in a BBC interview explained: "Keir Starmer grew up in a town outside of London . "

Which should be six contenders, whittled down to a smaller box on Monday when MP nominations in the vicinity, There is nothing particularly privileged about his background in Reigate, a Surrey commuter town. His father was a toolmaker, and he was The First in His Family to attend a University, as he is always quick to point out. He is also a bear named after The First Labour MP - Keir Hardie , a cloth-cap, working-class-hero.

But he is clearly sensitive about the impression that, as a North London MP And One of the country's leading lawyers, he is a member of the hated "metropolitan elite".

The former head of the Prosecutor's office, was knighted in the year 2014 to use for the "services, law, and criminal law," But rather his title.

'Scraping the barrel' MS Thornberry is also the title to be due to the fact, married to High Court judge Sir Christopher Nugee , But it prefers not Lady Nugee called.

"I've never been a lady, and it takes a lot More Than you, married, and a knight of the Empire in order to me"

she has not returned to claims that it is the working class enough that you grew up in a Council flat, and The Daughter is a single mother.

All true enough, although her father, Cedric, has left The Family , was an International Law lecturer at the then The Assistant director-general of the United Nations .

Mrs Long Bailey has also alleged exaggeration of their working-class face logon information.

you worked in a pawn shop and the call Center prior to his entry into politics, But she also had a successful career in the law (in contrast to Thornberry and Starmer, maybe).

middle-class membershipShe said on your election brochure that you grew up with her father Jimmy "disturbing, if a round were added after the round of layoffs" on the Salford docks, where he worked. The docks closed, when she was just two.

Salford and Eccles MP has accused the critics have pointed out that this "scraping the barrel", added her father had also given The Threat of redundancy for his next order.

Labour's first MP Keir Hardie as a working-class hero, Birmingham Yardley MP Jess Phillips , was by controversia list writer Brendan O'neill, who claimed their parents would be "'incredibly plush, well-paid jobs".

you are asked to beat her ex-teacher, the father, Stewart Trainor, back, by saying: "Jess white, and life for hundreds of working-class People . They are your People , as you are, my People - we Brummies are very close. "

Another work-contenders, Wigan MP Lisa Nandy , The Daughter of an Indian academic, has also spoken, to gain your ability back again to sit the North, because they "understand life" of those who live there.

Norwich South MP Clive Lewis has a lot of roots of its working class, speaks at The Launch of his campaign about his "socialist and a trade unionist," father, who works in a food-processing factory in Northampton.

But there is little evidence that the "working class" is an advantage, to win when It Comes to Labour-management-of-competition, or, in fact, the General elections.

the three trade Union leaders, to win the managed parliamentary elections since the second World War , only Harold Wilson could have a claim to, rose from humble beginnings. Jim Callaghan and Neil Kinnock , were working class and proud of it, But they won never the power. Jeremy Corbyn , came from a middle-class background, But , as Kinnock lost two elections.

the research shows, labour membership who will choose the next leader will be mainly the middle class, although they work more class than it was during the Blair years and more working class than the Tory or Lib-Dem membership.

found that, in spite of the Tory, labour, SNP and Lib-Dem members, the more middle-class than of their party, the voters, all of them were a little shy of your party describe as "middle-class". Labour and SNP members were The Most reluctant.

Labour's 'red wall'" - the class is partly in The Eye of The Beholder ," says Prof Tim Bale, one of the authors of The Report .

"to work, There are more People who self-identify as working class, as a lens-class. "

James Callaghan (left) and Harold Wilson (in the middle) were from working-class background, A basic class is such a Problem in the Labour-management dispute is the labor force, a heavy losses for the Conservatives in its traditional Northern English heart of the country.

lost The Party also seats in Wales and Scotland - But it was the shock of the legendary places such as Bolsover, domain,, Dennis Skinner or Tony Blair , the former stronghold of Sedgefield, the grabbed from red to blue for the First Time , all the headlines.

much of the focus on the work of the contest so far whether the candidates have the stuff to rebuild this so-called "red wall" of the work.

But , argues Prof Bale, "it is incredible to think reductive, that only the working class North can do artist.

"I don't think there is any evidence to suggest that the leader of ticking, one of the two boxes. It is more about their personality than their demographic background. "

Working-class southerner perceptions of the working class under the political class in Westminster, often seem to revolve around "incredibly outdated" stereotypes, he adds.

"There seems to be a deletion between the "working class" and "North" - As If the two things are the same. It is As If you don't Count from The South of England and the working class. "

in the Middle-class Tony Blair was a Northern working-class constituency, But "it is a much bigger problem with working class representation, through the entire political class," he adds, which is also the media and the scientific community.

It is probably a bigger problem for labour than the Conservatives, because labour was Set Up to represent the Working People .

But the Labour leadership contenders are, for The Most part, products of a time when the vast majority of members come from The Professional , instead of the manual working classes.

And, like most MPs, and most of those in public life in General, you can come across than to say if you don't "nothing working class in the UK, this sounds like you, and not look like you," argues Tim Bale.

'down their nose'this is a point also of Chris McGlade, who recently wrote about his decision to choose Conservative for the First Time in his life.

"do not speak with our voices. Working-class People , in the main, do not identify with what to say to this middle-class, progressive-liberal," he says.

McGlade, a native of Redcar , on the North-East coast who have spent decades working as a comedian on the Northern Working Men 's club circuit, But now the breakthrough in the distinctly middle-class world of the alternative comedy show forgiveness over the murder of his father.

As a former Labour member, whose family is deep in the socialist values and traditions, he is the kind of voters The Party must win back.

But as someone that voted to, in 2016, he is angry about Remainers "looking down their noses at us - they think we're thick or racist" - and the decision of the city is the former Labour MPs to back a referendum, in an area that voted massively for the Left.

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