Should we be surprised by this when Labour is led by a man who lives in Islington – the constituency which has become synonymous with "champagne socialism". This has provoked derision from party grandees, with Harriet Harman expressing mock surprise that she would be succeeded by someone "both older and posher than me". Labour's John Mann, MP for Bassetlaw, has complained about the party's new domination by well-off middle-class members, remarking that 40 people from one street in Islington joined over a 12-week period. Lord Watts, former leader of the parliamentary party, recently accused the party of being in hock to "the London-centric, hard-left political class who sit around in their £1m mansions, eating their croissants at breakfast and seeking to lay the foundations for a socialist revolution".