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Article: THE NEW CLASS WAR; SATURDAY ESSAY;IN A POSH AND BECKS WORLD THAT EMBRACES VULGARITY AT THE EXPENSE OF EXCELLENCE, THOSE WHO SPEAK WELL AND HAVE BEEN TO GOOD SCHOOLS ARE TOO OFTEN MOCKED. WELCOME THE NEW CLASS DIVIDE.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 11, 2003
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Byline: MAX HASTINGS
THE TORIES have a problem.
No, no - I don't mean him. I am not referring to anything that was said or done in Blackpool this week, though I have watched jollier funerals.
I mean that the Tories still look like toffs. Let us use a word seldom employed anywhere these days, except satirically: some resemble gentlemen.
Even though they scarcely own an acre, they wear a lot of pinstriped suits.
They look as if they come from what used to be called the ruling class.
This is a serious difficulty, for a party which aspires to win over a modern British electorate. In the eyes of many voters, it suggests ...