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From stewartb:

All this talk of divisiveness by Mr Brown today reminds of this from the Social Mobility Commission report ‘State of the Nation 2018 to 2019’:

Source: 

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/798404/SMC_State_of_the_Nation_Report_2018-19.pdf

“This data highlights that both Scotland and Wales are becoming significantly more socially mobile, as a person’s job and life chances are less determined by their socio-economic status at birth. This is encouraging and compares favourably to England, where social mobility has not improved.” (p. 138) And the report goes on:

“The Commission recognises the Scottish Government’s efforts at tackling in-work poverty by becoming an accredited voluntary living wage employer, as well as strongly encouraging other employers to do the same.” (p. 138).

Mr Brown’s concerns over divisiveness also remind me of this from the British Social Attitudes Survey.

Source: https://bsa.natcen.ac.uk/media/39363/bsa_36.pdf

“It has long been apparent that those with a strong English identity are less likely to embrace the greater social diversity that may be occasioned by immigration,
 a product perhaps of the fact that in England at least, the idea of creating a ‘multicultural’ society has been associated with Britishness rather than Englishness (Curtice and Seyd, 2001; Jeffery et al., 2014.). ”

So this report provides extensive evidence on ongoing polarisation of Britain, and in particular South Britain.

“…. there are strengthened relationships too between support for leaving the EU and both people’s sense of identity and their broader libertarian or authoritarian values.”