When he was leader of the Labour Party Neil Kinnock once famously asked “Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university?” A memorable line…

Kinnock’s son Stephen’s hopes of securing the safe seat of Aberavon in Wales may be dashed by the news reaching the valleys that his daughter, Neil’s granddaughter, is the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be privately educated. This has not gone down well despite Stephen Kinnock bringing his glamorous wife – who just happens to be Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the Prime Minister of Denmark who poses for selfies with President Obama – to a Welsh Labour Party fundraiser. Insiders say the daughter’s expensive education at one of Copenhagen’s most sought after private schools will cost this “Red Prince” the solidly socialist seat. Excuses won’t wash boyo…