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Polly Toynbee explores the ever-more-pressing question of how possible it is to move up through British society. Who gets to break the 'class ceiling'?

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2/2 True social mobility means for every person who moves up, someone must move down.

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2/2 True social mobility means for every person who moves up, someone must move down.

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