We heard there from our North West Political Editor about this toff campaign that you've been running and Steve McCabe, who's running the Labour campaign up there, has talked about the Conservative candidate as being, from an "excessively privileged" background.

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And here's another curiosity - Boris Johnson may play the bumbling, upper class toff to perfection and yet many people clearly love him for it.

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Mr Browner nicely retells, for instance, the cautionary tale of Lady Ottoline Morrell, a well-meaning but slightly dim toff who thought she had found her role in life as hostess to London's literary smart set.

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