My mum’s dad was a postman and her mum was a barmaid who worked until she was 80 at The Old Swan Hotel in Harrogate which BaggieAL will no doubt know of?

My dad’s dad was a bus driver and his mum left home and school in Durham at the age of 15 to move to Harrogate to be a nurse in an orphanage in 1926, she worked as a shop assistant later in life.

All good, solid hard working people all of their lives.

My dad was one of the first six non fee paying kids to win a scholarship to the ( still ) prestigious Asheville College in Harrogate in 1946.

I suppose the “Liberal Elite” and the like would label me as “privileged white”.......if they’d seen my mum and dad struggle financially in the 60’s and 70’s that term would’ve seemed laughable!

The truth is though, I was privileged, privileged to have been born into and brought up by such honest and hard working people who were dripping in integrity!!