PM accuses poor of low aspirations

The Prime Minister, David Cameron has suggested that the reason that young, working class individuals do not get ahead in life because they have low aspirations, The Daily Telegraph reports.

Mr Cameron, who was educated at Eton and Oxford, was responding to comments made by former Conservative Prime Minister John Major who expressed shock that the upper echelons of power are dominated by middle class, privately educated elite. Mr Major said:

'In every single sphere of British influence, the upper echelons of power in 2013 are held overwhelmingly by the privately educated or the affluent middle class. To me from my background, I find that truly shocking.’

Labour has criticised the comments as ‘talking down’ to young people and speaking for a privileged few.