Gaby Hinsliff makes some very interesting points in her article (The death of the middle-class professional spells danger for Labour, 2 January). But as so often, averages hide a range of experience. I look at my own graduate daughters and their contemporaries.
My eldest is 27 and a junior doctor, so she earns more than those average graduate salaries (looking at gross not hourly rates). But some of her friends who graduated slightly earlier with very good degrees have high-flying jobs, earning more than £50,000 within a couple of years of graduation. Others, though, have struggled to find secure, well-paid jobs.
