The Labour Party conference has got off to a very promising start, with The Spectator being complimented from the stage and applauded in the hall. ‘Here’s a publication you don’t hear praised that often at a Labour Conference: the Spectator,’ started Gloria De Piero, its equalities spokeswoman. But she did not, alas, go to quote our editorial ‘The false promise of “equality.“’ She was instead praising our working with the Social Mobility Foundation for summer internships – something that a lot of publications do, including the New Statesman. Her speech is above.
It’s good to see both left and right agreed in the need to address declining social mobility in Britain. The penetration of the privately-educated at the top of all strands of British society is something that should disturb even people like me, who had the advantage of a private education. Here are some figures that Gloria quoted in her speech:-
Of course, left and right have different ideas about how to combat social mobility – which is reflected in the different approaches which The Spectator and the Statesman take to internships.
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