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But Labour would also have the most educated top team in history, with nearly half of its ministers, 15 of 31, having gained at least one postgraduate degree and all but two having undergraduate degrees, according to analysis by Times Higher Education. Two of them, Anneliese Dodds and Peter Kyle, hold PhDs. In contrast, only six of Sunak’s cabinet have postgraduate qualifications, which suggests that class is now no barrier to academic achievement.

How the - how the fuck -

Yes i am going to look at this incredibly small cohort of Very Special Pampered Boys Who Didn't Go To School Yet Rose To High Places and my conclusion, orthogonal to every other fucking thing that is going on, is that class is not a barrier to academic achievement. This is one of those Not Even Wrong things. Like clearly the conclusion here is that in order for a working-class person to rise high they need to be genuinely remarkable, while the dumbest fucking oaf born to a peerage will leisurely stroll into a position at the top of society.

But it’s important that Labour doesn’t replace the Tories’ distracting culture wars of the past few years with class warfare. For a start, their core vote is changing: the latest YouGov tracker poll has a higher percentage of ABC1 professional middle-class voters backing Labour than C2DE working class.

Unfortunately for us this columnist has already gotten her wish.