Cameron can’t talk about social mobility until he talks about inequality

The PM's refusal to acknowledge how the gap between the rich and the poor shapes opportunity shows he far he is from solving the problem.

By George Eaton

After his spokesman’s brusque dismissal of John Major’s comments on social mobility earlier this week (“what counts is not where you come from but where you are going,” was the non sequitur offered), David Cameron has issued a lengthier response to the former PM’s fusillade. He told reporters on the first evening of his trip to India:

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George Eaton is the New Statesman's senior editor (politics). He writes the Morning Call political briefing three times a week and contributes columns, features, interviews and leaders.