One of the crucial problems we have as a party is that we have brought our leadership in from much too narrow a group. Basically Oxbridge graduates, in particular economics graduates, politics graduates, social scientists and lawyers. We need to reconnect to working-class communities, we have to reconnect to ethnic minority communities and bring up real leaders from within the people we represent.
Daily Mail, 30th December 2011
Oxbridge Labour is too elitist and fails to connect with working classes, says Miliband aide | Daily Mail Online[dailymail.co.uk]