My Labour PPC backstory: I grew up in Barnsley as the son of a steel worker and the grandson of a coal miner.
My Tory PPC backstory: My mum voted for Brexit.
My LibDem PPC backstory: I was raised Methodist.
My Restore PPC backstory: My great-granddad fired a shotgun above Manny Shinwell’s head.
Jack Tindale
My Labour PPC backstory: I grew up in a single parent family on a council estate in East London
My Tory PPC backstory: my grandparents were small businessmen
My Reform PPC backstory: my grandparents came to this country legally
My Restore PPC backstory: I am descended from white Rhodesians
Stephen Bush
It's quite a fun exercise to try to work out what the most working class and most middle class version of the story of your own social background you could tell. (I could tell wildly different stories about my own social class by picking the biographies of two grandparents - one from each parent.)
