Have Post-war changes in educational policy and provision brought Britain closer to realising the vision of the meritocratic society?

We are no closer to a meritocratic society than we were in 1944.

Michael Buerk asks if the monarchy is compatible with a truly meritocratic society.

The first advocates of socialism promoted social leveling in order to create a meritocratic or technocratic society based upon individual talent.

So, you see, it is working, just not in the way an education system ought to work in a meritocratic society.

Nevertheless we are committed to a meritocratic society.

And the fear that a meritocratic society will prove a dystopian one is at least a half-century old.

Education, supposedly the key to advancement in a meritocratic society, is also heavily dependent on wealth and class.

Has America ever been, or claimed to be a totally meritocratic society where only 20% of the bottom quintile stay there?

However, your post goes well beyond that, and I have to question whether, in a meritocratic society, you'd have got anywhere near a university "lecturor."