The Financial Times quoted new Sutton Trust research on their first page today in an article regarding the new MPs.

David Cameron has named Thatcherite former banker Sajid Javid as the first Conservative business secretary in 18 years, with instructions to cut red tape, create 3m apprenticeships and boost exports.

Mr Javid, the son of an immigrant Pakistani bus driver, will take his place at the cabinet table on Tuesday in a new ministerial line-up that Mr Cameron hopes will help him develop a new brand of “blue-collar.

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The cabinet will include more women — Amber Rudd becomes energy secretary, Priti Patel moves to employment — and will have less of a public school bias: the Sutton Trust says that 43 per cent of ministers attended comprehensive schools, up from 21 per cent in 2010.

Read the full article online here.(£)