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My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.

I'm working class. Not because my family have always been skint or because I'm from the grim north, but because I am from a class of people who believe in work. In paying their way.

I don't think you can get any more working class than me. Everyone seems posh to me.

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.

When I retired from active duty, I still felt that I owed something to my community. That's why I pursued education... I still miss the classroom and recall those days fondly.

Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.