Nick Bent, Author at Progress

Nick Bent

Nick Bent has been CEO of upReach, the leading UK social mobility charity, since January 2023. Prior to this role, he was Co-Founder and CEO of The Tutor Trust. He is a former Special Adviser to Tessa Jowell, a former Director of the think tank Policy Network and was Labour parliamentary candidate for Warrington South in 2010 and 2015.

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If Andy Burnham is serious about breaking down barriers for young people, his Government must keep Labour’s Manifesto promise to ban unpaid internships.

Last month, for the first time in years, upReach held a fringe meeting at a Party Conference. We were pleased to do so in partnership with Progress. We did this because there is real urgency to removing a major barrier to career success for young people from working class and

Nick Bent 30/10/2026

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A strong start from Starmer on social mobility

Six weeks ago, when I spoke at the Progressive Britain conference on ‘is Labour serious about class’? and blogged that, yes, I thought they were, none of us had any idea that a General Election would come so soon. We’re now just two weeks from a potentially historic polling day,

Nick Bent 20/06/2024

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Thank you, Keir Starmer, for making class a mainstream issue again

Nick Bent will be joining us at Progressive Britain Conference 2024 on May 11th, at our panel ‘Is Labour serious about class?’. Get your tickets to hear more from him there! At the risk of being an outlier, I’m going to give a simple, one-word answer to one of

Nick Bent 10/05/2024