Ming talks to New Statesman

The New Statesman has published an interview with Ming by Martin Bright.

Where once he was not prepared to use his own story for political purposes (his relatively humble origins, his fight against cancer), he is now opening up. He talks of his father, a member of the Independent Labour Party who worked his way up through Glasgow City Council to become general manager of the building department. This informed his attitude to social aspiration: “My parents did their best for me, sent me to a local authority school which distinguished itself by playing cricket and rugby. They paid modest fees, you wore a cap, and of my sixth form of 31, 29 went on to higher education. This was part of the Scottish tradition. Education was the mechanism, the means by which you develop.”

The full interview is online here.

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