Pilita Clark: It doesn’t pay to be a working-class professional

Class is a bigger barrier to career progress than gender or ethnicity in some City firms

British Labour Party chief of staff Sue Gray was unique in her previous role as a top civil servant in that she never went to university. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

But for me, one of the most remarkable things about Gray is not what she has done but what she has failed to do: go to university.We had to go abroad for work. Will we be taxed on sale of our home? Education is not the only measure of class. Parents’ occupations matter too. But Gray is still an outlier in a country where a small elite still has a big say in how things are run. The Labour Party she is trying to get elected has plans to smash a “class ceiling” that by some measures is a bigger problem in the UK than some comparable nations.

The firm measured class by checking what an employee’s highest earning parent did for a living, a method used by PwC, the Slaughter and May law firm and other groups tackling social class diversity.

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