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Thursday, April 16, 2020

Don't read too much into a regional accent

Jess Phillips | Left not ‘going anywhere’ | Easter Sunday in Ambridge | Keir Royale | Greeks and crisis The Ask Hadley column (13 April) says Jess Phillips MP “grew up working-class”. Wikipedia says her father was a teacher and her mother an NHS executive: a comfortably middle-class background. A regional accent doesn’t always mean that one is working class. It can just as readily be the result of a state education outside London. But I agree with everything else in the column, so I won’t be cancelling my subscription. VAL HART _Linthorpe,_ _Middlesbrough_ • In two recent articles, Owen Jones has said “the left [isn’t] going anywhere” (Corbyn and Sanders may have gone, but they have radically altered our politics, 16 April; Starmer can succeed, and he deserves our support, 4 April). He may find more readers agree with him than he expects, depending on how they interpret this ambiguous claim. NEIL JAMES _Bargas, Toledo, Spain_ Continue reading...


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