In this week’s episode we’re talking about privilege and we’ve invited journalist and campaigner, Vicky Spratt to talk to us about what class has to do with our work. 

Vicky Spratt reports on housing and society. Her Make Rent Fair campaign led to the introduction of the Tenants Fee Act, which has resulted in the ban on letting fees for tenants renting in the private sector. Her first book, Tenants, will be published next year. Her work centres on a central theme – how the mechanisms of class structure in this country inform our social policy and affect all of our lives, whether we realise it or not.

The three of us sit down and have a hard conversation about privilege and we get to grips with how difficult it is for those from diverse backgrounds to break into elite professions. 

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Links 

• I changed my accent to make myself sound posher – even that wasn’t enough for some wealthy friends, Vicky Spratt, The i paper: https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/i-changed-my-accent-to-make-myself-sound-posher-even-that-wasnt-enough-for-some-wealthy-friends/ How to Break into the Elite, BBC Two: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000772n
• Only 7% of the general population have been privately educated, but a third of MPs have been privately educated: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-32692789
• Two thirds of Boris Johnson’s cabinet are privately educated: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/private-school-boris-johnson-cabinet-reshuffle-ministers-sutton-trust-eton-college-a9020266.html

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