'Elitist' is a glib label hung around Westminster’s neck by lazy media | Michael White

On both sides, ‘elite’ is an insult readily hurled, but there are far fewer old-school types in parliament compared with 30 years ago

It’s good to read that Theresa May’s new cabinet is less public school dominated than David Cameron’s, less so than any since the Attlee team elected in 1945 by some accounts. More diverse in terms of gender and ethnicity, too – more representative of modern Britain.

Excellent. But does that make it less “elitist”? I doubt it. On the Labour left and the Brexit right “elitist” is a term of abuse easily hurled at anyone who sounds a bit like one of Michael Gove’s “experts”, saying something that fact-averse people don’t like.

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