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SNP bucks trend for privately educated MPs
01 June 2015
The Herald Scotland included Sutton Trust research regarding the background of MPs.
The SNP’s group of 56 MPs may be overwhelmingly professional and university-educated. But they are also by far the parliamentary faction with the fewest public schoolboys and girls.
An analysis of the background of Scottish MPs show that the vast majority of Nationalists in the Commons went to state secondaries.
We asked all the 59 Scottish MPs where they went to school. All but three – all from the SNP – told us.
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The Sutton Trust, which studies the educational backgrounds of MPs, reckons just five per cent of SNP members of parliament went to private school. That compares with 17 per cent for Labour, 14 per cent for the Liberal Democrats and 48 per cent for the Conservatives.
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