The BBC featured Sutton Trust research in an article on the background of MPs.
The educational background of the House of Commons is unlikely to change much after the election, a study suggests.
The Sutton Trust education charity said 31% of new parliamentary candidates with a “reasonable chance of winning” on 7 May had been privately educated.
The figure is 33% in the current Parliament, and compares with 7% of the UK’s population as a whole.
Some 55% of the candidates went to the leading Russell Group of universities, with 19% attending Oxford or Cambridge.
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