Sentences with phrase «working class background»

What seems to have been just as much of a factor is that many of these girls came from working class backgrounds.

When successful people from working class backgrounds find themselves in the country - club atmosphere of a corporate culture they know they are in foreign territory.

Almost none were on show stands, none were sponsored by multinational corporations, most came from working class backgrounds.

If Mirren often plays on her Russian heritage in interviews, and draws on her British working class background in other contexts — in what has become a polarised form of role play to manipulate the media's perception of her — then the images used in this exhibition represent her corresponding parts for film and television that show issues of domination, subjugation and control, such as in The Queen, Caligula and Prime Suspect.

Ms Greening said «many young people from an ordinary working class background already attend our existing grammar schools».

We need to have people from working class background getting to Parliament, speaking in those ways, with those concerns in mind.

When I was a student, many years ago I got a grant and tuition fees that I didn't have to repay, and I had friends, like myself, from working class backgrounds who would not have gone onto further education, but for the fact it was FREE.

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

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.

People from traditional working class backgrounds that did the «Thatcher» thing and took advantage of right to buy years ago?

«Mr Burnham stressed his ordinary working class background.

«Lucky» Jim Dixon epitomized a new and rising social group of men in post-World War II Britain - men of lower / working class backgrounds who, by dint of scholarship, rose out of their former place in the hierarchy to challenge the social order.

Whilst some MPs from working class backgrounds have made it to the top of politics — the likes of Alan Johnson and David Davis — the reality is that the social composition of our representatives is not representative of our country.

They also don't stand to attention with one hand on heart and the other saluting while thinking, «I am from an under privileged background or a working class background and this is why I MUST support Arsenal.»

The American system of education is a lot different to ours so experiences are not directly transferable, but I was a high school drop out from a working class background at a time when that was not that unusual.

One told PoliticsHome: «It's always been the big fear, that Ukip would end up being led by someone like Nuttall, a northerner from a working class background.

One Labour MP told PoliticsHome: «It's always been the big fear, that Ukip would end up being led by someone like Nuttall, a northerner from a working class background.

John McDonnell comes from a working class background in Liverpool and Campbell knows it.

28th June 2016, The Sun: Smirking class: Fewer than one in six of Jeremy Corbyn's supporters is from working class background

She came from a working class background to become a well - respected human rights lawyer, using the traits which make this autobiography so effective.

If he didn't possess that talent he may well have ended up as just another statistic, a young person from a working class background and broken home who got into trouble and never recovered.

«One thing I think as someone coming from my working class background always got my gut about the Labour party is they're prepared to abandon people on large estates, happy to see them on a life of dole, happy to see them getting a substandard education.

Gareth's progressive values, government experience, working class background, and grassroots approach to visit all 163 towns in NY - 19 is how we'll win this race and bring our voices to Washington.»

Take one look at the MP's on the Tory benches — they are universally wealthy, even the select few from working class backgrounds

I'm a good looking well educated Northern Irish guy from a working class background.

Emerging from a working class background, the brothers have become known for their sophisticated ear for dialogue.

Looking back on this story, Kerrigan embodies privilege, even though she herself was from a working class background.

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

She comes from a working class background like I do and we wanted Mildred to be from that world.

Nancy Kerrigan came from a working class background, but her camera - ready blue collar family is a world away from Tonya's hardscrabble upbringing in Portland, Oregon.

As for grammar schools, there is the stigma that these institutions are reserved for the children of the wealthy and middle class, with statistics that reflect that children from working class backgrounds are far less likely to obtain a place.

The education secretary Justine Greening will today defend grammar schools in a major speech, claiming that selective schools already benefit young people from «ordinary working class backgrounds».

This question encompasses rather than minimizes the realities of US discipline policies disproportionally affecting students on the margins broadly, including students from working class backgrounds, [7], students of color [8], students of color with dis / abilities [9], and gender non-conforming students [10].

As a poor boy from a working class background he becomes seduced by the lifestyle offered by the firm (they pay him, a summer student, $ 160,000 per year and give him a big bonus to commit to joining the firm full time).

The reasons are complex: I come from a working class background and live in the north of England, a long way from the magic circle around London, so I don't frequent the clubs and the social events where everyone networks.

Growing up on the Wirral from a working class background both Leckey's parents worked for Littlewood in the days where brand name retails store's dominated consumer culture.

«I come from a small town, a working class background,» she says, adding that her parents are immigrants from Germany.