Equality of opportunity has been embraced by left and right alike. Who could disagree with the sentiment that all children deserve a fair start in life?
Yet Sunday's report from the National Children's Bureau shows just how little progress has been made in closing the gap between children from poor and affluent backgrounds over the past 40 years.
It is a monumental failure of policy in which the whole political establishment is implicated.
Beneath the report's stark figures lies a simple
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