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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Sophie Huskisson

Controversial social mobility chief quits saying she's doing 'more harm than good'

A Government social mobility tsar has quit her role as she said she was "too much baggage" and doing "more harm than good".

Katharine Birbalsingh, Britain’s so-called “strictest headteacher” said some of her "controversial" statements had put the Social Mobility Commission in "jeopardy".

When first appointed chair in 2021, she said the debate on social mobility was too focused on people from poor backgrounds getting into top universities and elite professions.

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