It might help if the country’s rulers sounded more like their citizens
, Emma Thompson plays a politician whose abrasive ideas, such as barring those with lows from voting, rocket her to power. To British viewers, her policies might seem more plausible than another of her character’s distinctive qualities: an unapologetically Mancunian accent.
Yet a tourist driving the length of Britain would find these are merely hints of the country’s spectrum. Wilson had nothing like the full Huddersfield . Mr Major campaigned as a “working-class boy from Brixton”, but he hardly talked like a pipe-fitter. That is because, from the 19th century onwards, people who aspire to govern Britain have imitated the upper-class pronunciation of the South-East, often known as Received Pronunciation and associated with pukka schools.
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