Class consciousness

The BBC's former Political Editor John Cole

Does class matter in today's politics?

Many would say policies are more important than status and that education and family background no longer dictate political fortunes.

But the BBC's former editor, John Cole, class politics are still alive and well at Westminster.

He explains why in the first in a new Sunday Supplement series.

In part two, John Cole begins by recalling an election campaign of more than forty years ago.