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General election 2015: One third of MPs will be privately educated following vote in May
05 February 2015
Ewan Palmer reported on the Sutton Trust candidates’ research for International Business Times.
Almost one third of MPs are predicted to be privately educated following the 2015 general election, with a disproportionate amount attending Oxbridge.
According to a study by the Sutton Trust, which campaigns on social mobility, 31% of candidates in winnable seats have attended fee-paid schools, compared to just 7% of the general population.
The figures also show that a fifth (19%) of candidates will have attended Oxford or Cambridge. Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust and of the Education Endowment Foundation, said research shows that the next House of Commons is “unlikely to reflect any more social diversity than the current crop of MPs”.
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