Jeremy Corbyn is again in the news after his old family home goes up for sale for more than half a million pounds, though he claims to be growing up middle-class.
Yew Tree Manor, a country house with five bedrooms and an acre of gardens – is on the market for £650,000 after the current owners decided to sell it.
The 67-year-old Labour leader grew up in the property after his father David, an electrical engineer, bought the place in the 1950s.
Despite growing up in such a spacious home, when asked on ITV’s Peston on Sunday if he was middle class, the leader said “Oh God, I don’t know.”
He added that the new owners of the manor had “spent a lot more money on it than my mum and dad were able to”.
The Labour leader earns £74,962 per year as an MP, and an extra £58,000 as leader of the Opposition.
