Like his political leaderene, Sir Alan was from a relatively poor background in the unfashionable east Midlands. And like her, he nurtured a lifelong disdain for middle-class intellectual socialists.
和撒切尔夫人一样,艾伦爵士来自东米兰德,出身相对贫寒;同样,他也毕生蔑视中产阶级识分子的社会党员。