The applause was lacklustre but she could barely contain her glee as she added, as a daughter of immigrants, she would take no lectures from the “north London metropolitan liberal elite”. Three years ago Theresa May gave more clues to that answer, when she promised to attack the metropolitan liberal elite in her keynote speech to the Tory conference. “That is why the north London liberal elite don’t get it on notions of meaning, respect, status,” he says. Or they immediately default to [attributing it to] xenophobia and nativism.”As the founding editor of Prospect magazine, and an Islingtonite who was a Marxist at Eton, Goodhart was undoubtedly a member of the north London metropolitan liberal elite. And it raises the question of whether it’s a bad thing to have a liberal elite.

Source: The Guardian October 05, 2019 12:33 UTC