Can a person change really change their social class?

Class isn’t just whether you’re classy (Picture: Getty)

Journalism is one of the UK’s most elite industries, according to the charity Sutton Trust.

Almost half of newspaper columnists, for example, went to private school. Yet just 7% of the British population did.

I’m part of that 93% – I grew up in a council estate and went to a comprehensive school in Dagenham, east London.

Now I’m a journalist. Does that make me middle class?

So we asked Metro readers whether a person can change their social class...