[Margaret Pilkington]

Might he have learned a little bit of something do you think...or is this just 'lip service' purely for an article published by the New Statesman?
I am not sure. He still paints us as ill educated peasants who do not know our bum from a hole in the ground,though he doesn't actually say that, there is the strong implication there(well that is my feeling after reading this article).

'If the left is to learn any lesson from Brexit, it must be that we cannot speak a political language different to those we seek to represent.'(New Statesman)