TV funnyman Ricky Gervais has claimed that the issue of class is more important than either race or sex.

Gervais grew up on a working class council estate and told The Daily Telegraph that he doesn’t remember having any middle class teachers at any of his schools.

Gervais said: “I think class is more significant than race or sex. To this day, in a room full of overprivileged Oxbridge graduates I feel them giving me a sideways look.

“Perhaps I’m being paranoid but I do feel that they are saying: ‘We know…We know that eventually you are going to let yourself down. Eventually you are going to make a faux pas at this dinner party’.”

He added: “‘I don’t care. I quite like it because I’m not going to make the faux pas at this dinner party unless I mean to – you know, using the wrong knife deliberately.”