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SOCIAL MOBILITY

Gordon Brown is now trying to claim that Labour is the party of social mobility.  Here are five facts to remember about Labour’s record:

·         social mobility has stalled and inequality is at its highest since records began;

·         half of pupils leave school without five good GCSEs including maths and English, and the gap between richer and poorer pupils is getting wider;

·         the incomes of the bottom ten per cent actually fell by £9 per week after housing costs between 2002 and 2008;

·         the number of people living in severe poverty has risen by 900,000 in the past ten years; and

·         youth unemployment has reached a record high; and one in five young people can’t find a job.

We can’t go on like this.  We need change to mend our broken society.

18th January 2010