Steven Swinford reported for the Telegraph on a Boris Johnson speech on social mobility, where he cited the Sutton Trust.

Britain will no longer “tolerate” the growing gap between the rich and the poor unless the Conservatives “smash down” the barriers to social mobility, Boris Johnson has said.

The Mayor of London said it was wrong that professional jobs were dominated by people from middle class backgrounds, highlighting the recent competition between Eddie Redmayne and Benedict Cumberbatch – both privately educated – for an Oscar.

He said that it had been “decades since we had a culture of bright kids from poor backgrounds who exuberantly burst down the doors of the establishment”.

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Mr Johnson said: “If we are going to have wealth gaps on this scale then there must be social mobility and what worries me is that the social mobility in many key respects has been declining.

“You see it in every study, from Alan Milburn’s findings to the work of the Sutton Trust, professional middle class jobs dominated by families who have had professional middle class jobs

“Top universities dominated by families who have been at top universities.

“You see it in the law and in journalism and in Parliament. You see it in acting: there were two British men competing for best actor – an old Etonian and an old Harrovian. You even see it in sport.”

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