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Sutton Trust response to the UPP Foundation Inquiry into Widening Participation
07 Apr 2025
The Economist reported on our Leading People research
“Education should not be about wealth,” boomed Tony Blair in 1996. Two decades later, it still is. Private schools teach 7% of Britain’s pupils, but account for half the country’s senior civil servants, cabinet ministers and leading journalists. Seven in ten generals and judges went to independent schools, according to the Sutton Trust, a charity. In some jobs the proportion has even increased.
Read the full report here.