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Why playing down a privileged background might be a savvy career move
It is why British PM Starmer and Posh Spice associate themselves with the working class.
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has had to remind everyone he is the son of a working class toolmaker because he has been attacked for being out of touch.
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Emma Jacobs
Are you privileged? If so, how privileged?
Maybe the issue makes you prickle with discomfort, as it did when two professors asked a former senior partner at a Magic Circle law firm.
