We Need to Talk About Class: Is It Time to Abolish Private Schools? (Sophie Pender)

Radical with Gabriel Gatehouse · Jul 9, 2026 · 1h 9m

Sophie Pender grew up on council estates in North London, became the first in her family to go to university, trained as a corporate lawyer - then walked away from a six-figure salary to fight Britain’s class problem.

She’s the founder of ‘The 93% Club’, a network for state-educated students and professionals, named after the proportion of people in Britain who go to state schools. But Sophie argues that “social mobility” has become too polite a phrase for something much deeper: how much class, accent, money and private education shapes who gets power – and who doesn’t.

In Amol’s final…