In need of a lift after a difficult week, Sir Keir Starmer took a leaf out of the playbook from nearly every PM who has come before him… Stating how working class he is.

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Until now, Sir (only the most working class of us have a knighthood, after all) Keir has perhaps been too vague about just how humble his backstory has been. Repeating over and over that his father was a toolmaker has clearly just been missed voters, so this week it was time for something more on the nose.

“It is utter nonsense to suggest that everybody gets a fair chance in life, utter nonsense. I feel very strongly about this,” he told the party faithful on Monday.

“I’m in that Cabinet as Prime Minister, having come from a working-class background to be Prime Minister of this country. But that’s the exception, that is not the........

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