The shadow chancellor will reject social mobility and instead talk about eradicating poverty in a major speech. Mr McDonnell is due to set out his party's plans in a speech at the launch of the Resolution Foundation's Living Standards Audit on Wednesday morning. He will say “behind the concept of social mobility is the belief that poverty is OK as long as some people are given the opportunity to climb out of it, leaving the others behind. (Image: AFP/Getty Images)It comes after the party committed to axing the Social Mobility Commission and replace with a social justice commission. He will commit Labour to ending austerity, free school meals, free buses for young people, free childcare, restoring funding for public libraries, leisure centres and parks.

Source: Daily Mirror July 16, 2019 23:03 UTC