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The survey for the Guardian found that an overwhelming 89% majority believe that people are still judged by their class, against just 8% who think class does not matter in shaping the way they are viewed.

Tony Blair promised a "meritocratic" society in which people are judged on their talents, not their backgrounds and where "we have laid to one side the old adage about knowing your place".

But the ICM survey suggests that a majority (55%) of Britain's poorest people feel that class, not ability, has the greater affect on the way they are seen.

And class divisions remain a reality for the young. Some 90% of 18-24 year-olds say people are judged on their class.

The poll suggests that the past decade has seen little change in the class make-up of British society.

Some 53% of those questioned said that they considered themselves working class, only a fraction down on the 55% recorded in a similar poll in 1998. Of people born to working class parents, 77% said that they are working class too.

Meanwhile, 41% described themselves as middle class, exactly the same proportion as in another poll in 1999.

Only 2% said that they saw themselves as part of the upper class.