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Article: Mr Paxman (Malvern), Mr Marr (Loretto), Ms Harman (St Paul's) ... the Left's nauseating hypocrisy over the Eton Tories.(Features)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 8, 2009
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Byline: Stephen Glover
THE ISSUE of class is making a dangerous and potentially lethal reappearance in British politics. Last week, Labour's Deputy Leader Harriet Harman tried to depict the Shadow Chancellor George Osborne as a kind of debauched, upperclass Regency rake.
What she did not mention is one of her late aunts happens to have been a countess, and she herself was privately educated at St Paul's Girl's School. Mr Osborne, the son of a baronet, attended St Paul's School for boys, so there is a pleasing symmetry here.
Ms Harman's lodestar, however, is not truth. Her purpose is to stoke up class envy, and to plant the idea in people's ...