This summer, Jeremy Corbyn has struggled to get much coverage of his plans for domestic policy thanks to the fact Labour’s anti-Semitism crisis has dominated the headlines. So the Labour leader can take heart that one of his policy ideas has finally started to make waves. In a speech on the UK press on Thursday, Corbyn will call on the BBC to declare the ‘social class’ of all its presenters and journalists as part of a bid to improve its diversity – including whether they went to private school and their parent’s occupation and education.
Mr S has no doubt that Corbyn plans to lead by example and do the same with his office. But just in case he doesn’t, Steerpike has compiled a ‘social class’ check of Corbyn’s top team:
Jeremy Corbyn
The Labour leader grew up at Yew Tree Manor in Chetwynd Aston, a hamlet on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border – described by Tatler as ‘a pretty red Georgian property that was once part of the Duke of Sunderland’s estate’.
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