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Inequality, Class, and Social Mobility with Dr Faiza Shaheen (Oxford PPE Society)
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Inequality, Class, and Social Mobility with Dr Faiza Shaheen (Oxford PPE Society)

"One of the ways in which right wing ideas have been able to have such a strong grip is by lowering our expectations, and I really did feel that on the doorstep."

This week we are joined by Faiza Shaheen, the Director of the Centre for Labour and Social Studies. She has been the Director since 2016, prior to which she worked as a senior researcher at the New Economics Foundation and as head of inequality and sustainable development at Save the Children UK.

In 2019, she ran as a candidate in the general election for Chingford and Woodford Green. She earnt one of the largest Labour vote swings in the country, but fell short of replacing the incumbent Iain Duncan Smith.

Faiza is an expert on inequality and mobility in the United Kingdom and we discuss just this in our 42-minute podcast episode. We talk about how it relates to class, and discuss proposed measures to tackle inequality and stagnating mobility in the economy. We also touch on the changing picture of class, her run for Parliament in 2019, and the appeal of metrics of national success beyond GDP.

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