Anyway, nothing very revelatory to say in conclusion, but it does feel like there's some massively self-sabotaging Other-ing going on here, and that we'd all be much better off if Starmer could relax a bit and stop thinking about people as lines on a graph that goes up and down.
I think this is one of the big arguments in favour of moving parliament out of London. Dragging MPs out of their old-school-tie establishment cliques
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What I think you're describing is the English establishment. It tries to poke its head in here but is mostly kept at bay. British governments are inevitably part of it - whatever their background and starting beliefs, the people who succeed within it accept that.