David Lammy
@DavidLammy
Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice. MP for Tottenham.
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Kemi Badenoch’s attack on Bridget Phillipson at PMQs today lays bare something deeper about the direction of their politics.
I’m proud that this Labour government has the most state-schooled Cabinet in the post-war era - people who didn’t grow up with privilege, but earned their place through hard work.
That’s the difference between us and them.
This Labour government believes background should never be a barrier to opportunity. Social mobility isn’t a slogan - it’s the whole point of a fair society. And yet too often it feels like there are those who want to sneer at it, undermine it, and drag us backwards.
We should be celebrating opportunity, not trying to hold it back.
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