Social mobility is fundamentally about there being a ladder of opportunity that everyone should have a fair chance of climbing. The report shows how wrong it was two weeks ago for Jeremy Corbyn to formally ditch social mobility as an objective for a future Labour government. His decision to instead focus on social justice at the exclusion of action on social mobility is perverse and misguided. He has completely failed to understand that social mobility is not just about a few talented people getting to the top. Both social justice and social mobility matter because it’s about both a route out of poverty and a route up to prosperity.

Source: The Guardian June 26, 2019 12:05 UTC