Politics

Controversy of the week A war on privilege What school did you attend? What postal code did you grow up in? What were your parents’ professions? Those are the questions which Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock wants companies to start asking job applicants, said Dan Carrier in The Guardian, and which the civil service may soon have to ask. It’s part of a bid to stop discrimination against the poor. “Social justice is at the heart of everything this one-nation Government is trying to achieve,” Hancock explained. You can see what prompted him, said Brendan Cole in the International Business Times. A report from the Sutton Trust, which campaigns for social mobility, has found that half the Cabinet were privately educated, as were 74% of High Court judges; 71% of top military…

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