Peter Wilson quoted the Sutton Trust is his report for The Australian on the reshuffle.

Forget the unprecedented breadth of Theresa May’s cabinet overhaul, in which all but a handful of Britain’s top government posts suddenly were placed into new hands. And look past the decisions that the new Prime Minister made about the usual parameters of gender, left-right factions and which ministers wanted to leave or remain in the EU.

The truly remarkable aspect of May’s shake-up of Westminster this week is how completely she demolished the power circle that has really ruled Britain for the past six years, the “posh boys” clique of top ministers with whom David Cameron surrounded himself in Downing Street.

The diligent vicar’s daughter who was respected but never embraced by that wealthier, younger and mostly male clique swiftly put to the sword the blue bloods who lorded it over her during the six years Cameron ran the government and the decade he led the Conservative party.

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May’s shake-up “was much more radical than many people were expecting”, says Lee Elliot Major, chief executive of the Sutton Trust, which lobbies for equal educational opportunities.

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