Writing for the Independent, Adam Withnall quotes Sutton Trust research into the background of MPs.

Labour is suffering one of the “great crises” of its history and may “never” be able to win an election again, but as the party prepares for a bruising leadership election it can at least take solace in the fact that all five candidates have one thing in common – they all went to Oxbridge.

The Sutton Trust, a think tank which aims to promote social mobility, has analysed the educational background of all the new members of the Commons in a report entitled Parliamentary Privilege – The MPs 2015.

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