Writing for The Telegraph, Harry Mount discusses the implication of the findings of recent Sutton Trust research on the background of election candidates.

The House of Commons is going to stay pretty posh after the next election.

A new survey has shown that 31 per cent of prospective parliamentary candidates in winnable seats were privately educated compared to seven per cent of the population as a whole.

The Commons is already pretty posh: 10 per cent of Labour MPs are privately-educated, as are 49 per cent of Tory MPs.

It is grotesquely unfair – and I speak as someone who went to private school. Unfair, but not surprising.

The fact is, those private schools are, on the whole, extremely good. The envy of the rest of the world, they are now crammed with the children of Russian oligarchs and American hedge-funders.

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