The Spectator
5 June 2024
Education has all but disappeared from the election debate
Polling commissioned from More in Common by the Sutton Trust, and published last week, demonstrates that the public passionately agrees that access to opportunity is currently unequal. Some 83 per cent say the gap between social classes is either quite big or very big, with 44 per cent believing it is bigger now than 50 years ago. The majority say that children from well-off families get better opportunities in school (62 per cent), in pre-school education (59 per cent) at universities (62 per cent) and in jobs (54 per cent), especially professions such as accountancy, law or medicine (61 per cent).