The
leader of Britain's trade union movement has warned of creating a "Downton
Abbey-style" society in which social mobility "has hit reverse".
Frances
O'Grady argued that there was "no sign of the economic recovery in most
people's lives".
The
TUC general secretary also said that, under the coalition, "class
prejudice" was becoming "respectable".
The
Conservatives said the party would not take "lectures from a cluster of
union bosses on six-figure pay deals".
Ms
O'Grady's speech to TUC delegates in Liverpool expanded on the annual
conference's main theme of living standards.
'Silver spoons'
She
said: "Are we going to settle for a nastier and poorer Britain - a Downton
Abbey-style society, in which the living standards of the vast majority are
sacrificed to
