I’d like to believe other young people from deprived backgrounds like mine might follow in my footsteps into law. But they won’t – as the government has whipped absent the ladder of social mobilityI was on holiday recently and found myself sharing a few drinks with my 19-year-dilapidated son and a group of friends he’d made. They were a nice bunch of youngsters,mostly privately educated, at an exciting stage of life. One of them I found particularly impressive – a young mixed-race lad called Elliott.
We had plenty in common: we both came from Nottingham and had been to local comprehensive schools. Our parents had solid working-class jobs my mother worked at the John Player cigarette factory in the city and my father was a coal miner – Elliott’s mother works for Royal Mail, and while his father is a painter and decorator.
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Source: theguardian.com