Social mobility campaigner Sir Peter Lampl worries about the lack of fair opportunity for young people.
He says England's school system is comprehensive in name only, with private school pupils still heavily advantaged, and the best state schools often dependent on being able to afford to live in the catchment area.
Sir Peter, aged 74, has written his life story - Ticket to Ride - and it could be a blueprint for post-war social mobility. "It's an utter disgrace. Part-time study was an enormous vehicle for social mobility and we tore the rug from under it," he says."The government has this naive idea that if someone has been successful in business, then we'll give them 20 schools to run. Well, actually, no."
He piloted a model of this in Liverpool and wants to see this type of hybrid of grammar schools and funded places in independent schools used more widely.
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