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.

和撒人一样，艾伦爵士来自东米兰德，出身相对寒；同样，他也毕生蔑视中产阶级知识分子党员。