Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Listening to Jack Dromey attacking Tory Etonians on the Today programme and the discussion afterwards between Charles Moore and Matthew Taylor, it confirmed that Labour should leave the class struggle to the Tory Party - where, as I've written before, it burns bright and more fiercely and personally than in the Labour Party, especially where the leaders of the Conservative Party itself are concerned.
Class is a hugely important issue in Britain, alas displaced onto social measures rather than economic ones. If Labour really is going to go for Eton as a dangerously divisive institution of unfair privilege, then it should at least remove its charitable status or, better, take it over as a public good, turning its wonderful residential facilities into a resiential college for adult education.
