Aftab Ali citing the Sutton Trust’s analysis of Prime Minister Theresa May’s new cabinet.

Theresa May has been praised for having the lowest number of privately-educated ministers in a new Prime Minister’s Cabinet in over 70 years.

Social mobility charity, the Sutton Trust, analysed the backgrounds of her new Cabinet to find only 30 per cent have received a private education, the lowest proportion since Labour PM Clement Attlee in 1945.

The move is already reflective of Mrs May’s first statement as leader of the Tory Party when, prior to entering number 10 for the first time as Prime Minister on Wednesday, she said her new Government will be “fighting against the burning injustice” that “if you’re at a state school, you’re less likely to reach the top professions than if you’re educated privately.”

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