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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鈥檚 class problem.

She鈥檚 the founder of 鈥楾he 93% Club鈥�, 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 鈥渟ocial mobility鈥� has become too polite a phrase for something much deeper: how much class, accent, money and private education shapes who gets power 鈥� and who doesn鈥檛.

In Amol鈥檚 final Radical interview, Sophie explains why she鈥檚 made it her life鈥檚 mission to make private schools redundant, why networks matter as much as talent, and what it would take to build an old boys鈥� network for everyone else.

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