THIS year's A-level results reveal the widening gap between the least and most well-off young people during the pandemic, experts, teaching unions and Labour warned today.

In the first year since the return to pre-pandemic marking, the disparities between those accepted into university are now at levels last seen a decade ago.

Students in the north fell further behind those in London and south-east England and the grade gap between private and comprehensive also grew compared with 2019.