News
Privately educated MP numbers ‘unlikely to change after election’
05 February 2015
The BBC featured Sutton Trust research in an article on the background of MPs.
The educational background of the House of Commons is unlikely to change much after the election, a study suggests.
The Sutton Trust education charity said 31% of new parliamentary candidates with a “reasonable chance of winning” on 7 May had been privately educated.
The figure is 33% in the current Parliament, and compares with 7% of the UK’s population as a whole.
Some 55% of the candidates went to the leading Russell Group of universities, with 19% attending Oxford or Cambridge.
Read the full article here.
Media enquiries
If you're a journalist with a question about our work, get in touch with Sam or Rocky on the number below. The number is also monitored out of hours.
E: [email protected] T: 0204 536 4642