Like many other Members of Parliament, he came from an old, rich, landed gentry family.

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Unusually for Latino immigrants, these were upper-class people: urban professionals and landed gentry, almost all of them white.

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Their upbringing was a conventional one of landed gentry with insufficient means.

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For example, magistrates have not generally been paid because they were traditionally drawn from the landed gentry who did not need to work.

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For the rest, it provides a connection with an increasingly distant Labour past where scaring the landed gentry came above reassuring the middle classes.

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It may not be the case that they are made up of the back streets of our great industrial cities, but having said that they are not just all the landed gentry, which I think is the perception.

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Any perception of a tweed-clad member of the landed gentry more concerned with pheasant stocks, Purdey shotguns and regenerative timber stocks hides a shrewd, calculating businessman, unafraid to show the ruthlessness of a mako shark in making unpopular decisions.

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