Mercifully, Katharine Birbalsingh has always been an acquired taste.
There are, thankfully, examples all over the country, in several walks of life, of people who have defied class and race barriers to climb the ladder. They are the perfect antidote to Birbalsingh, who’s tagged by some as “Britain’s Strictest Headmistress”.
In October she was appointed chair of the Government’s Social Mobility Commission, responsible for monitoring and promoting social mobility across the UK.
