Angela Rayner MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, commenting on the Social Mobility Commission’s Annual ‘The State of the Nation’ Report, said:

“This damning report today from the Government’s own Commission on Social Mobility should make for sobering reading for the Tories. Under their government, there’s a growing sense of two nations: the lucky few at the very top and the millions who make up ‘everyone else’.

“Since they came to power in 2010 we have seen our country go backwards on the progress the Labour Government made on social mobility. The educational attainment gap between lower-income children and their wealthier classmates is getting bigger, and these children still have little chance of going into high-level professions. And under Theresa May we can expect more of the same: grammar schools for a select few, overcrowded classrooms for the many.

“This increasing division is the result of a Tory Government who have no answers on delivering the change working people need. We no longer live in a world where it makes sense to only provide a good education for a minority of children. Only Labour can offer real change for a future that works for all.”