Full coverage of UK Politics Does Labour know remotely what it is doing in its nasty Crewe campaign? Its anti-toff attacks on Edward Timpson might be considered rather vile if they were not such a mark of desperation, and thus unintentionally amusing. They may also backfire. Timpson appears to be a thoroughly decent man with parents who fostered more than 80 children. He has a very nice house but then so does Gordon Brown, who gets Chequers for free, and cabinet members don’t exactly go to bed every night in council flats. As Janet Daley points out, this speaks to a deeper Labour confusion about modern notions of class. Who or what is a toff anyway? Read more... ...
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