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Clegg lacks credibility on social mobility - Harman

22 May 2012

Harriet HarmanHarriet Harman MP, Labour's Deputy Leader, responding to Nick Clegg's speech on social mobility, said:

"Nick Clegg would have more credibility on social mobility if he hadn't promised to scrap tuition fees before the election, and then trebled them afterwards.

"He's part of a Tory-led Government which is closing children's centres and has scrapped the Education Maintenance Allowance and the Future Jobs Fund, while more than a million young people are out of work - and which is failing to take forward key measures in Labour's Equality Act to narrow the gap
between rich and poor.

"Cutting taxes for millionaires while millions pay more makes inequality worse, not better."