Making an Exhibition of Himself

There is no limit to how posh or how right-wing a Conservative MP can be. 

Some of them have been staggeringly left-wing while staggeringly posh, while some of them have been staggeringly common while staggeringly right-wing. 

Therefore, the condition of being a very posh Labour MP, and there have always been some, should be that you were firmly on the Left.

The condition of being a very right-wing Labour MP, and there have always been some, should be that you were not posh at all, nor even all that middle-class. 

No one who was both working-class and left-wing would ever be allowed to become a Conservative MP, even if they wanted to. 

Likewise, no one should be allowed to become a Labour MP who was both right-wing and upper or even middle-class.

For example, the extremely posh and extremely right-wing Tristram Hunt.

Remember, bringing back entrance fees for museums and art galleries would entail reversing a measure that was put in place by Tony Blair.

The present Government has no policy of effecting any such reversal.

But in the full knowledge that Hunt wanted to do so, the Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum have appointed him to a position that does not appear to have been advertised, and for which he has no apparent qualification in the ordinary sense of the word, but which is lavishly remunerated at public expense.