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SOCIAL Mobility and Child Poverty Commission chair Alan Milburn says employers should "wake up and smell the coffee" after a report found that elite jobs are more likely to go to members of the elite.
Milburn should take his own advice. So 70 per cent of job offers at 13 top law, accountancy and "financial services" firms went to people who went to fee-paying and selective schools?
What a surprise. Why does the former Labour minister think rich people pay for their children to attend such schools?
As the PM and his chief of staff’s blunders have mounted up, ANDREW MURRAY wonders who among Labour’s diminished ‘soft left’ might make a bid for the leadership
LOTTE COLLETT welcomes the arrival of a new party for the left, a vehicle for councils to finally fight for progressive policies on housing, green spaces and public facilities, rather than administering cuts and misery from central government
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart