‘Where you can afford to move decides job chances’

Justine Greening, former education secretary, is now running the Social Mobility Pledge campaign, which gets businesses to widen opportunities.

For her, the big fork in the road that meant she was leaving her home town of Rotherham was when, in a phone box, she got her A-level results and knew she was going to university.

She said she was "completely aware" of the significance of the moment - and that having seen her dad being unemployed, she knew the seriousness of such an opportunity.

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Rt Hon Justine Greening

Founder, Social Mobility Pledge

Former Secretary of State for Education, Minister for Women and Equalities, Secretary of State for International Development, Secretary of State for Transport, Economic Secretary to the Treasury