Imagine that it’s 2020, Boris Johnson is gone, and you are the new British prime minister Jeremy Corbyn — or perhaps his more electable Labour successor. You are leading a coalition. Your mission is to make the UK fairer. British social mobility is “stagnant”, and a person’s background strongly predicts their future career, says the government’s Social Mobility Commission. The country’s elite passes down advantage from generation to generation: 64 per cent of Johnson’s cabinet went to private schools. All this unfairness helped prompt the vote for Brexit.
想像一下，現在是2020年，鮑里斯•強森(Boris Johnson)已經離開了，而你是新任英國首相傑里米•柯爾賓(Jeremy Corbyn)——或者是工黨中其他更可能當選的首相繼任者。你在領導一個執政聯盟。你的使命是讓英國變得更公平。英國政府的社會流動委員會(Social Mobility Commission)表示，英國社會流動性「停滯不前」，一個人的出身極大地預示出他未來的職業生涯。英國的精英階層將優勢代代相傳：強森的內閣中有64%的人上過私立學校。所有這些不公平幫助推動了英國退歐投票。