The problem with trying to define class | Letters

Defining class for the purpose of legislation is a non-starter, writes Michael Chapman. Plus a letter from Patrick YarkerFurther to your editorial on class becoming a legally protected characteristic (30 January), I note a letter from an unnamed solicitor (Letters, 5 February) who says she is “definitely working class”, but does not explain how she knows that. She admits there is a problem in defining what it is so, I assume, she has her own personalised definition.And therein lies t