[Applause] At the age of five, along with my parents and four brothers, I was homeless. One of my earliest memories is as a child sitting on a toilet in a former church hall, casually swinging my legs, watching the rats play on the floor below. After a few months, social services, learning of our family's plight, found us a home in one of the most deprived areas of Gosport.As a family, we were both poor and hungry. Coats and newspapers utilized in the winter months in attempt to keep us warm at night. Empty ...

Social Mobility & Education - Elite schooling remains the most reliable path to the top of British society [1]

[Applause] I am a child of migrant parents who came from Greece. My parents used to work in the factories and now we own the factories. My um parents came here with absolutely nothing and my daughter and son have everything. Everything. There's nothing that they need or that they want. I my generation was born here. We were the first ones in between first ones born here, right? And we grew up with stories of struggle and poverty and hard work. And now we're bringing up lives that are telling us stories abou ...