I've just wasted the last hour or so debating this point on FB with a local Tory Councillor and wannabee MP who is a contemporary of my kids. .
Just a bit of fun and intellectual challenge, shooting fish in a barrel, until he describes the Supreme Court justices as 'geriatrics'.
I've met Baroness Hale and Lord Carnwath professionally, the latter as far back as 40 years ago when he was a practising barrister doing planning/land/local government stuff. Hale was at Law Commission for a while and a former member of 'the quango'; gone by my time but still active in the system.
He's Eton>Oxbridge>Inns of Court and has the accent and persona you'd expect but still lives in real world. She's state educated and worked her way up through academia. If you met her in a bus queue you'd not gain a clue as to her professional role.
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