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Social mobility

June 2024

  • illustration composite with children looking at a teacher in front of a whiteboard and an apprentice

    Life under Labour
    Labour wants to create opportunities for all. Can its education pledges narrow the divide?

  • Blurred image of pupils walking along school corridor

    Poorer high-ability UK children fall behind peers at school from age of 11

April 2024

  • Ella Murtha stands with her back to the camera as she looks at prints of her mother's photography displayed on a wall

    Interest in working-class photography booms but barriers to industry remain

  • Rishi Sunak stands next to a sign on a building that says 'powered by levelling up'

    UK divided: how 'levelling up' failed
    Levelling up: what has the government spent – and where?

February 2024

  • Pupils sitting an exam

    GCSE grades a good predictor of life chances and wellbeing, research shows

    Study of 23-year-olds found the exams were even more important for those from disadvantaged backgrounds

January 2024

  • Frustrated woman feeling despair in a shared office, holding her head in her hands over her laptop.

    ‘Ramen noodles budget’: EU moves to end exploitation of unpaid internships

    Unless from a wealthy family, internships for many mean chipping away at savings and cutting back on essentials

November 2023

  • A ‘glaring exception’: Angela Rayner campaigning in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, in 2017.

    The Guardian view on class: the Tories represent their social base, Labour less so

    Editorial: As in the 19th century, the UK’s two major parties, led largely by middle- and upper-class politicians, are vying for the votes of a politically marginalised working class

October 2023

  • People queue to enter a job centre in east London

    Getting an accurate measure of social mobility

  • Children in school playground

    Warning over unconscious bias against working-class pupils in English schools

September 2023

  • A member of the public walk through the Possilpark area of Glasgow.

    The Guardian view on class in Britain: the government doesn’t want to talk about it

    Editorial: Social mobility is being redefined because the Conservatives need election-ready political narratives
  • Customs signs directing lorry drivers to the correct lanes for administration checks at Holyhead port in Wales.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Boris Johnson government ‘always hoped’ Northern Ireland protocol would collapse – as it happened

    Lord Frost, Brexit negotiator for former PM, tells House of Lords that government never wanted ‘unsatisfactory’ protocol to work
  • Two people walk past a red brick wall thaht has 'Food bank!' written on it next to an arrow.

    UK social mobility at its worst in over 50 years, report finds

    Institute for Fiscal Studies finds stark disparities in earnings based on geography and ethnicity

August 2023

  • Torsten Bell

    Hidden gems from the world of research
    Are richer people really more rightwing?

    Torsten Bell
    The answer is: up to a point. Social mobility imbues a sense of fairness that born-rich people lack

July 2023

  • Labour leader Keir Starmer gives a speech to unveil the party's fifth and final mission for government, at Mid Kent College on 6 July.

    Education is the key to reviving social mobility

  • Labour party leader Sir Keir Starmer speaks at a college in Gillingham, Kent, on 6 July 2023.

    Labour is right to talk about the power of oracy

May 2023

  • Rishi Sunak chairs the first full Cabinet meeting of his premiership in October last year

    True equality is an idea the Tories just don’t get

  • Justine Greening

    What’s the big idea that could win the Conservatives the next election? Social mobility

    Justine Greening

April 2023

  • Torsten Bell

    Hidden gems from the world of research
    Levelling up policies do raise incomes, but also make the rich richer

    Torsten Bell
    While pumping money into poorer regions increases average salaries, it creates wider wealth disparities too, research finds

March 2023

  • The exterior of Newham college’s Stratford campus.

    68% of Muslims in England and Wales live in areas with high unemployment

  • Lola Okolosie

    The Tories keep bottling their push for more grammar schools. Is it because they know they don’t work?

    Lola Okolosie
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