>> Bromp said ...Keir Starmers father was a toolmaker....
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>> The detail he always forgets to mention is that his father actually owned the Oxted
>> Tool company ...
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>> Also Starmer was educated at the independent fee paying Reigate Grammar school.....
What was the status of the Oxted Tool Company? Was Keir's father a partner in a business employing others or skilled working class who progressed to self employment?
The Reigate Grammar School bit is more easily explained. It was caught up in the move to abolish the 11+/Grammar Schools. The move away from Grammar/Secondary Modern was, to a large extent, a bit of the sixties political consensus. Only subsequently has it suited the narrative for it to be lefty dogma.
Until 1976 it was a voluntary aided Grammar School with pupils selected via the 11 plus. It became independent and fee paying when the County Council's scheme for "Comprehensivisation" was approved.
Starmer was born in September 1962 so presumably took and passed the 11+ in 1973/4 before the change of status. Existing state funded pupils kept their places with the fees paid by the LEA.
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Mon 22 Aug 22 at 11:37
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