SOCIAL Mobility and Child Poverty Commission chair Alan Milburn says employers should "wake up and smell the coffee" after a report found that elite jobs are more likely to go to members of the elite.

Milburn should take his own advice. So 70 per cent of job offers at 13 top law, accountancy and "financial services" firms went to people who went to fee-paying and selective schools?

What a surprise. Why does the former Labour minister think rich people pay for their children to attend such schools?