Research
Deborah Mattinson and David Ashton FREELANCE

Stuck in the middle with... who?

24-Mar-2011

Politicians are desperate to appeal to the ‘squeezed middle’. But a new survey by BritainThinks shows that nearly three quarters of people in the UK now claim to be middle class. Should researchers pay more attention to this than to the traditional socio-economic grades? Deborah Mattinson and David Ashton take a look.