I wonder if there is a word for someone from an upper-class background who deliberately adopts some lower-class mannerisms (such as using words associated with lower social status or putting on an accent).
Learn English – Word for someone who adopts lower class mannerisms
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Best Answer
In the UK this is often called 'Mockney' from mock+Cockney.
Several British politicians are guilty of this, in feeble attempts to make themselves more appealing to the working classes.Here is Conservative MP George Osborne at it, as recorded by The Telegraph newspaper.
Ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair was also guilty of it.