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Yeah, pretty much.
I’d have no problem with an Oxford + Eton educated PM if they could actually show some ability and empathy. I’d have no problem with a PM with 2 GCSEs if they were demonstrably good at the job.
The problems come from assumptions (and in the current case, from an old boys network).
If you listen you Angela Rayner on the Rest is Politics, she’s quite eloquent on her background (and the majority of what she said was quite hard to argue with imo) but Rory Stewart also challenged her quite well on the ‘Tory scum’ comments.
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I think the point they were making is that this is complicated. The simplistic view “attended Oxford therefore Tory bastard” does not apply here. Simply fixating on one aspect of a person fails to take in the holistic complexity of people.