The new applicants are understandably nervous that they may be relegated to second-class membership the moment they join.

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Lore allows teachers to control exactly who is in the network (by issuing a class-membership code) and to see how they are using it.

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But now it is recruiting fast, 70% of its membership is young, male and working class.

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"For more than 30 years, our political class has done its best not to talk about our membership of the EU, " he told the House of Lords in November.

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