Sentences with phrase «more working class background»

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has a more working class background, but has been moving in political circles on good salaries for decades.

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But no more fathers» wars, not least since those sent to war tend to come from working - class backgrounds, where starting to have children often still happens earlier than has lately become the norm.

Naomi Andrews, who has worked for Shea - Porter for more than a decade and managed two of her past campaigns, became the ninth Democrat to join the September 11 primary ballot, touting her middle - class background and experience working with Shea - Porter.

For those who keep such scores, the House of Lords has a higher proportion of women, a higher proportion of people from ethnic minorities, a broader range of ethnic minorities, and far more people from working - class backgrounds generally and the trade union movement in particular, than can be found down the corridor.

Sadiq vowed «nothing was off the table» when it comes to Labour's drive to get more people from ethnic minorities and working class backgrounds into senior posts.

The big strides made in securing more women Labour MPs have also, unfortunately, been paralleled by a decline in those from working - class backgrounds.

He insisted David Cameron's privileged background was not an insurmountable barrier, pointing out that Harold Macmillan, who married the daughter of the 9th Duke of Devonshire, did more than any other postwar Tory prime minister to appeal to working class voters.

Whilst I certainly want far more local candidates and working class candidates selected by Labour, I won't write off Ed Miliband purely because he comes from a reasonably comfortable background (and I wouldn't exaggerate the riches of those on academic salaries either).

One in 10 middle aged adults had substantial hearing problems and were more likely to be from a working class or ethnic minority background.

«The higher an individual's socioeconomic background, measured in terms of parental social class or parental education, the more likely they are to work in science.»

But although having a middle class background makes it more likely that someone had gone to university, Dr Reeves's findings showed that they were no more likely to take part in arts after graduating than were working class students.

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The class implications of this allegory are painfully clear: though I suspect that Rockwell's background is more comfortable, the working - class origins of Anders, Rodriguez, and Tarantino (or at least what are perceived as his working - class origins) are central to their movies, and the myth of these filmmakers» ascendancy derives its power from the American dream.

Nancy Kerrigan wasn't some WASP princess, she came from a working - class background like Harding, but the difference is that Kerrigan sold the illusion better and had a much more supportive home life.

He is a rough fellow from a working class background while she seems more educated, refined and emotional.

By contrast, Hunter students coming from backgrounds similar to hers, «growing up in Chinatown with working - class parents,» were much more reluctant to participate.

And, for older children, we are working a lot with data from the Tripod Project [now based at Tripod Education Partners, Inc.], which I founded more than a decade ago to help school leaders understand what students of different racial, ethnic, and social class backgrounds experience at the classroom level.

In a separate study Dr Mairead Dunne, lecturer in education at Sussex, led a project that analysed grouping practices in 168 primary and secondary schools and found that working - class pupils are more likely to be placed in lower sets than middle - class pupils who have the same test results, and that pupils from middle - class backgrounds more likely to be assigned to higher sets, irrespective of their prior attainment.

With only 6 % of doctors, 12 % of CEOs, 12 % of journalists and 13 % of lawyers come from working - class backgrounds, the charity argues that the country's top jobs are unfairly being dominated by those from more advantaged backgrounds.

«The exhibition John Graham: Maverick Modernist at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, Long Island, is a unique opportunity to explore the work of an artist who has hovered on the margins of the Modernist narrative for more than a half - century, when he isn't forgotten altogether... Maverick Modernist takes a deep dive into Graham's background as an artist, a career he began in earnest when, at the age of 35, he enrolled in the class of the Ashcan School painter John Sloan at the Art Students League in New York City.»

And readers of tabloids tend to come from different socio - economic backgrounds to broadsheet consumers, typically being more working class.

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