Should have been paying attention to this thread; I knew that one. Curiously (or not) there's only been one British P.M from an urban working class background (and even then it can be disputed. Certainly urban poverty though).
You mean Lossiemouth isn't urban? Oh.
Actually I was thinking of Callaghan; which is why I said
background rather than origin and mentioned that it could easily be disputed. Impoverished lower middle class would be
much more accurate o/c. Portsmouth does count as urban, right?
Funny thing is that there's actually a link, of sorts, between MacDonald and Callaghan's political careers; the Callaghan family become die-hard Labour supporters after the first MacDonald government introduced pensions for widows.
