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'Now we are all working class...'
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HE EARNS 200,000 pounds a year, sends his children to private
school, lives at one of Edinburgh's swankiest addresses and has a
high-ranking position within one of Scotland's leading financial
institutions.
If ever a background screamed middle class this would be it. But
Jim Gilchrist, the sales director for the Scottish Life insurance
company, is having none of it.
"I have always been working class and remain working class,"
Gilchrist said. "My mother was a war widow who lived in a council
house and I went to a local authority school before getting a
scholarship to Heriot's. I started as a ...
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