DIANE ABBOTT looks at the perilous political cul-de-sac Labour finds itself in
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White working-class boys are not failing school because of a ‘lack of aspiration’
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WHITE working-class boys are being left behind at school. And a major reason is that they come from families and communities that are “without a culture of formal education” and lacking in “aspiration.”
The headline is from two years ago. So is the quote, which is from Tristram Hunt. At the time he was Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central, a constituency that typifies much of deindustrialised and impoverished Britain.
He went on to abandon representing those working-class constituents to take up a lucrative post as director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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