For decades now, social mobility has been feted as the answer to society’s ills. Social mobility has proven seductive to all sides of politics for two reasons. So Labour’s decision to break with this era of embracing social mobility will meet some resistance. Jeremy Corbyn announced last weekend that the party would be pursuing social justice for all instead of social mobility, and would replace the Social Mobility Commission with a body that measures progress against equality targets. Progressing beyond social mobility means accepting a hard truth: what makes social mobility so popular is it plays into the idea that a handful of people are deserving of greater success because they have worked hard and are preternaturally talented.

Source: The Guardian June 11, 2019 15:33 UTC