Why doctors should support welfare reform

Lack of equality when it comes to diverse cultural backgrounds makes people angry, and yet the exclusion from public life of the poorest in society is often dismissed as a problem of social mobility. I know something of social mobility. My parents came from privileged backgrounds but suffered the social cataclysms of bankruptcy and divorce in the late 1960s. Consequently, I was comprehensively educated, and I received free school dinners and clothing vouchers. To add to the mix we moved to Orkney, as minority English settlers. I may not be working class but I do know what it means to be both poor and an …