This is what James Blunt has to say about Chris Bryant

Chris Bryant, Labour's shadow culture minister, has said the arts world needs to address its diversity problem, with a more meritocratic culture and fewer people from privileged backgrounds.

“I am delighted that Eddie Redmayne won [a Golden Globe for best actor], but we can’t just have a culture dominated by Eddie Redmayne and James Blunt and their ilk,” he told the Guardian.

A fair point you might think. But, ever one for a sharp-tongued comeback, Harrow-educated Mr Blunt has clearly taken offence to being singled out.

The singer sent a scathing letter to the Guardian in which he addresses Mr Bryant as a "classist gimp" and a "prejudiced wazzock" and defended his own success in the music industry.