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Labour 'growing out of touch with the working class'

30 July 2018

Labour is growing out of touch with the working class because too many MPs are career politicians, a report by Dr Tom O'Grady (UCL Political Science) has found. Fewer than one in ten current Labour MPs are from working-class backgrounds, compared to seven in ten during the 1920s. Read: Sun, More: UCL News