As the UK’s A-level students complete their exams and look forward to the summer holidays, some will already be thinking about a career in the highly competitive world of business law.

But whether they succeed or not may be down to what school they went to, rather than any inherent ability. That is the verdict of research published this week by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, which is chaired by former Labour health secretary Alan Milburn.

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