Labour seeks working class MPs
Labour is launching a new programme to recruit working class MPs.
Ed Miliband is championing the programme to find and mentor people from lower-paid jobs amid concerns that too many MPs have backgrounds as political researchers or special advisers.
Shadow Cabinet Office Minister John Trickett, who will oversee the programme, said: “The Labour Party should be the engine of social mobility. It’s particularly important that our MPs reflect all the different parts of our country. In the past, there were routes into Parliament for manual workers, engine drivers or miners."