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Why it doesn’t pay to be a working-class professional

Social class is a bigger barrier to career progress than gender or ethnicity, a study by KPMG in Britain has shown.

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Top UK bureaucrat Sue Gray was back in the news last weekend.

The former top civil servant has in fact rarely been out of the news since she unexpectedly quit to become chief of staff to Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer last year.

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Pilita Clark is an associate editor and business columnist at the Financial Times. She writes a weekly column on modern corporate life, as well as features and other articles.

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