The rich dodge scrutiny with attacks on the intellectual ‘elite’

The focus of wealthy Brexiters and Conservatives on the allegedly improper influence of the intellectual elite demonstrates their lack of self-confidence in defending their own interests, says William Wallace. Tony Hinkins ( Letters, 6 November) is right to point out that “the elite” against whom wealthy Brexiters and Conservatives declaim is the intellectual elite, rather than the economic and social elites to which they themselves belong. This is the rich protesting against reasone