One of the problems with our media/political/civil service leadership being so heavily dominated by the privately and selectively educated is few of them actually went to school with the “white working class” so don’t really understand the attitudes involved.
There’s a lot of learned helplessness involved and combined with grievance stoked by the right for political leverage.
Articles like the original Telegraph one being commented on are part of the problem: bsky.app/profile/davi...
A myth of reverse discrimination is created to explain away differential performance, in order to avoid interrogating cultural issues within the working class.
The whole thing is myth making, based on middle class and antiquated assumptions about what the problems are and what the solutions are.
Why would someone with this attitude think they are well placed to run machinery of govt that includes the DHSC/NHS, DWP and Treasury?
And one of the few senior politicians who did is vilified by the RW rags because she bought somewhere to live (in a nice area)