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Nick Bent

Nick Bent has been CEO of upReach, the leading UK social mobility charity, since January 2023. Prior to this role, he was Co-Founder and CEO of The Tutor Trust. He is a former Special Adviser to Tessa Jowell, a former Director of the think tank Policy Network and was Labour parliamentary candidate for Warrington South in 2010 and 2015.
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A strong start from Starmer on social mobility

Six weeks ago, when I spoke at the Progressive Britain conference on ‘is Labour serious about class’? and blogged that, yes, I thought they were, none of us had any idea that a General Election would come so soon.  We’re now just two weeks from a potentially historic polling day,

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