The five signs that I became middle class overnight (yes really)

I come from a working-class family in northwest London. open image in gallery Kemi Badenoch, seen here launching her bid to be Conservative leader, said a stint working in McDonald’s made her working class Don’t believe me? In an interview on Christopher Hope’s Political Podcast, the Conservative Party leader hopeful recalled how, despite growing up in a middle-class household she “became working class” when she started working in McDonald’s at the age of 16. open image in gallery Magically middle class: Chante Joseph at Ascot I can’t quite explain the status of this shift in class that both Kemi and I have experienced, but I’m sure you have experienced it too. When I asked my friends for the signs that they too had suddenly become middle class their answers included leaving a job at Peacocks for a job at Selfridges, eating a scone for the first time, trying a truffle and olive oil crisp and watching an episode of Bridgerton.