Social mobility is the wrong goal – what we need is more equality | Letters

‘The remorseless focus on aspiration and bettering oneself results in … large numbers of graduates from working-class backgrounds who are unable to find graduate employment.’ points out Prof Diane Reay.Time to Change, the latest Social Mobility Commission report, states that radical reform is needed to repair a divided Britain, arguing that decades of policy failures have left the poor behind (Report, 28 June).Effective social mobility leaves the poor even further behind, as i