Jack Lowden
(Picture: Dave Benett)Scottish actor Jack Lowden complains that people with plummy voices get an easier ride, claiming “accent rules” in the UK.
At the launch of new BBC show The Gold last night, Lowden called accents one of the “great unresolved things” in public life, adding: “We’ve not had too many northern... or Cockney prime ministers”. The programme follows the 1983 Brinks-Mat robbery of gold and diamonds from a warehouse near Heathrow. In it, one thief says people “on the other side of the country do this and get away with it”, hitting out at the class divide.
