The new government social mobility tsar has told how he grew up in poverty and was made homeless as a teenager.
Alun Francis is today calling for more opportunities for people in left-behind areas like his family, who experienced spells on benefits and struggled to pay rent.
He told how although he passed his exams and went to university, his two brothers left school with just one GCSE each. And he draws on his own experiences of poverty as he calls for the levelling-up programme to be taken more seriously.
