Your editorial (The Guardian view on class in Britain: the government doesn’t want to talk about it, 14 September) purports to lay bare the problem with social mobility in the UK. But it simply reproduces an out-of-date narrative.
It accuses the Social Mobility Commission of obscuring the centrality of class. Yet our latest report is not an effort to “redefine” social mobility. In fact, occupational class is used in the main measure of socioeconomic background and as an outcome. But we also present evidence relating to other outcomes such as income, education, housing and wealth, because these also matter to people.
