Nadine Dorries once described the Prime Minister, David Cameron, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, as “two arrogant posh boys”, in contrast to the picture painted in her novel, The Four Streets, based on her upbringing in a working-class Irish-Catholic neighbourhood in Liverpool. But the Conservative MP for Mid Bedfordshire has a more nuanced view on social class than you might think. Two of her three daughters were educated at Ampleforth College, the independent Catholic school in North Yorkshire, and it was here that she recently gave a talk expanding on her comments about the Prime Minister and the Chancellor. Delivering the headmaster’s lecture at the Benedictine-run school – whose alumni include Cardinal Basil Hume, actor Rupert Everett and
16 April 2014, The Tablet
Blessed by the Rule
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