Are you a champagne socialist? Josie Long is tickled, if unsurprised, by the question. “Ha! Well I’m a socialist, and I love champagne so…” Clearly, it’s not the first time she’s been asked.
Long is known for her invariably left-wing stand-up routines, but went to the highly selective Newstead Wood School, followed by Oxford University, and when it comes to class she feels conflicted. “I did grow up in the home counties. I was in Kent – I was a grammar school girl. But I describe my upbringing as a bit of a roller-coaster because after my parents’ divorce, if I were to properly analyse the class system, I wouldn’t say we were very far up it.
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