This editorial in the Independent highlights how the contenders for the role of Conservative Party Leader are, yet again, from Britain’s privileged – and mostly white – elite.
“Britain’s most influential people are five times more likely to have studied at a private school than the general population, according to the Social Mobility Commission, an excellent body that is absurdly underpowered to do much about the most class-ridden society in the advanced world. We seem to be drifting towards a second upstairs-downstairs Edwardian era of inequality.”
“Just as inequality of outcomes – disparities in wealth and income – are growing more severe, so are inequalities of opportunity. … It is not good for society, for social cohesion or for the economy to have the best jobs nabbed by the children of the already rich, creating a vicious cycle of advantage and privilege.” Read the article here.
