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The rise of Britain’s new class system

1 July 2020

7:57 PM

1 July 2020

7:57 PM

Television chef Prue Leith believes that snobbery is still rife in Britain, and that it’s keeping working-class people in their place. Speaking to the Radio Timesthis week, Leith described Britain as ‘the most unbelievably class-ridden country’.

She is right, but not for old-fashioned reasons we associate with that Frost Reportsketch with John Cleese and the Two Ronnies.

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