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Politics Unpacked

Touch of class

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

What class are you? As a major study reveals we are becoming more middle class, Matt Chorley speaks to the Britain Thinks' Deborah Mattinson about the focus groups into social status, and comedian Russell Kane and self-styled middle class British Battleaxe Christine Hamilton talk about what their class means to them.


PLUS: Esther Webber and Robert Crampton on why refurbishing parliament is more pressing than No10's makeover



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0:00.0

This episode of Red Box is brought to you in association with SSE, a leading clean energy

0:06.0

champion, accelerating the transition to net zero. SSE is investing over £9 million a day

0:14.3

in cleaner, more secure, homegrown energy. That includes transforming networks across the country

0:20.4

to connect renewable energy, households and businesses to a greener grid, pioneering low carbon

0:27.1

flexible technologies such as carbon capture and storage and building the world's largest

0:32.5

offshore wind farm, a doggar bank off the coast of Yorkshire. When complete, doggar bank will

0:38.3

be capable of powering over 6 million homes a year with clean renewable energy, a major step

0:45.2

towards the UK achieving net zero carbon emissions. And all this is creating thousands of sustainable

0:52.8

green jobs in communities right across the UK. Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.com

1:01.5

slash change.

1:12.9

Hello, this is the Red Box podcast, I'm Matt Chauley. Coming up on today's episode,

1:17.6

what class are you? We've got a big project in the Times and on Times radio about class in

1:24.8

Britain in 2021, teaming up with Debra Mattinson, who you've heard on the podcast many times before,

1:31.2

normally talking about politics and particularly those red wall seats, but today we're talking

1:34.9

about class. The plan is a country where we are becoming more middle class, unless working class,

1:39.9

but it's not about the money that you have, or even whether or not you own your own home,

1:44.3

it's far more likely to be about which part of the country you live in, and the food that you

1:48.5

eat, really fascinating focus groups coming up on that. But first we kick off as ever with our

1:53.6

columnist panel, and for the last time before she leaves us for Pastures New, it's Esther Weber,

1:59.6

and of course she's as ever on a Thursday joined by Bob at Crampton.

2:06.7

Before we come to class, which obviously we'll do in a moment, let's talk about,

2:12.3

which is slightly, maybe this slightly resonates as well, the Labour Party,

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