The death of the middle-class professional spells danger for Labour

Intro:

Graduate pay is falling – and an aggrieved generation could join white-collar workers in supporting Reform UK.
What does it mean to have a middle-class, white-collar professional job?

It used to feel like a promise, a guarantee of a life that might not always run smoothly but would at least be stable, verging sometimes even on smug. It probably meant a mortgage, the kind of job title that made people trust you, and a sense ….