Jeremy Corbyn
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And then I went to secondary school.
I eventually, on the second attempt, passed 11 plus.
Horrible exam, terrible idea.
I went to grammar school in Shropshire, which was well into league tables and achievement and so on.
So there were two streams, A and B. I was in the B stream.
And then you were graded numbers one to whatever the last number in the class was.
And then a boy left, so we moved up to 30.
And for most of my time, I was in the lower 20s or 30 on the grading of the class.
They were all academically very good and very successful.
Two of them got first-class degrees from Imperial College.
That's Andrew, the later Andrew died some years ago, and Piers, who's still around.
Piers is almost notorious, I'm not quite sure why.
Oh, no, no, don't call him notorious.
He has an independent thought.
He has a different point of view to me on... On most things.