Sentences with phrase «grammar school boy»

This is now the era of grammar school boys and girls.

The Tory - supporting commentator has called school wheelchair ramps a sign of «ghastly inclusivity» and once described working - class grammar school boys who secured places at Oxford as «universally unattractive» and «small, vaguely deformed undergraduates».

There was said to be backbench disquiet that the push for more selection had been sidelined - and there will be scrutiny of whether Mr Hinds, a former grammar school boy, will be more sympathetic.

• As a former grammar school boy, the new education secretary Damian Hinds is likely to push for greater selection in the school system, McInerney said.

The other major «Raj» nostalgia of the 1980s was the television serialisation The Jewel in the Crown, in which the villain — Ronald Merrick — was depicted as a sadistic deviant who happened to come from a lower middle class background, was a grammar school boy and a closet homosexual as well.

The late Harry Thompson who brought HIGNFY to TV made a conscious decision on his part to have Ian, the grammar school boy, on one side and Paul, the voice of the working class, on the other.

I'm a grammar school boy; I was the first person in my family to go to university.

A grammar school boy from Essex who went on to work in law, he spent his first five years in parliament representing Hornchurch, but had to apply for a series of other seats as it was being abolished, eventually winning Old Bexley and Sidcup.

As a grammar school boy who can put the letters CBE behind his name, potter Perry has done fairly well out of his enslavement.