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Does class still influence politics?

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Class is back on the political agenda. With a general election looming, both parties have attacked the other's social ethics.

Gordon Brown has accused Tory policies of being dreamed up on the playing fields of Eton, and David Cameron believes the Labour approach to class is hypocritical.

Former deputy prime minister John Prescott and Conservative party chairman Eric Pickles debate whether the election should be fought on class.

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