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The state school Cabinet
15 July 2016
Theresa May on Thursday unveiled a Cabinet with more state educated ministers than any previous Conservative government.
The new Prime Minister’s Cabinet is 70 per cent state educated, with Justine Greening on Thursday becoming the first Education Secretary to have attended a comprehensive school.
It means Mrs May’s Government has the lowest proportion of privately educated ministers since Clement Attlee’s Labour post-war Government of 1945. The Prime Minister herself is state educated.
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According to an analysis by the Sutton Trust, 44 per cent of Mrs May’s Cabinet were educated in comprehensive schools.
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