Professor: Only 4 Percent of MPs Working Class, Brexit Party Could Shatter Status Quo
An eminent British academic has warned that a political status quo defined by an increasingly insular and out of touch political class could be shattered by the rise of Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party.
John Gray, an Emeritus Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics (LSE), pointed out that while around a third of MPs from the Labour Party came from working-class families in 1945, when that party won its first ever majority government, today “only around four percent of [all] MPs come from this background.”
Professor Gray, who was himself born into a working-class family in Northern England, observed that “Many of our elites live in a few inner London boroughs, sending their children to the same schools and mixing almost exclusively with each other” in an article published in the Mail on Sunday.
“Most of those who govern us have only a sketchy idea of how most people in the country live,” the scholar asserted, suggesting that “Places like Stoke-on-Trent and Sunderland might as well be in a far-off country” to them.
“That is why the [Brexit] referendum result was such a shock to these introverted elites,” he explained — before adding that “The next stage of the Brexit drama will be an even greater shock.”
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