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Bridget Phillipson: “As this report makes so depressingly clear, the distant dream of social mobility has failed a whole new generation of…”

On the recordJune 30, 2026
As this report makes so depressingly clear, the distant dream of social mobility has failed a whole new generation of white working-class kids.
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Bridget Phillipson
Labour Party

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Speaking at the launch of an inquiry on social mobility.

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