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Mind Your Language | 28 August 2004

A Lexicographer writes

issue 28 August 2004

The term ‘Middle England’ has been drifting a bit in the last few years, but never so far, so fast as under the impulsion of Mr David Miliband, a young minister in the Department for Education. He said last week that educational ‘improvements have released the potential of Middle England’.

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