Downton Abbey-style employment makes a modern-day comeback | Larry Elliott

Equivalents of Lord Grantham and his family are hedge fund financiers and City lawyersChristmas Day telly has not been quite the same since there stopped being a Downton Abbey special to savour. For many families, it was part of the yuletide ritual to watch the soap opera centred on the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who waited upon them.Downton was an idealised high-Tory view of the world. The aristos – Lord Grantham in particular – were paternalists, seeing it as thei