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Article: THEPR OPER CHARLIE! Before the Karl Marx beard and revolutionary politics - a fascinating glimpse of our new Education Secretary as a scrubbed-up schoolboy.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 4, 2002
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Byline: LEO MCKINSTRY
THE change is truly remarkable. Charles Clarke appears in front of the camera in 1963 as a polite, beaming member of a prep-school cricket team, his slicked down hair as neat as his smart blazer.
Yet, fast forward almost 40 years, and this product of a civil service family and public school education has been transformed into a bruising, dishevelled, straight-talking Labour politician, as notorious for his lack of diplomacy as his colourful political past.
This weekend, former Health Secretary Frank Dobson was complaining about the 'increasingly elitist approach' of New Labour. And when its comes to elitist backgrounds, no ...