If the Tories are serious about social mobility, they’ll have to level down the aspirations of middle-class parents
The social mobility in the government’s imagination is one in which nobody suffers – but that option no longer exists.
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Philip Collins
Philip Collins is a New Statesman columnist and contributing writer.
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