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Shock horror! Majority of Sunak’s Cabinet educated at fee-paying schools

The appointments highlight how "unevenly spread opportunities to enter the most prestigious positions continue to be", Sir Peter Lampl said.

Jack Peat by Jack Peat
2022-10-26 10:43
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Rishi Sunak has continued the trend set by Boris Johnson and Liz Truss of filling a majority of Cabinet positions with people educated at fee-paying schools, new analysis shows.

Some 65 per cent of the new Cabinet attended an independent school, including Mr Sunak, who went to Winchester College, along with his three most senior colleagues: Chancellor Jeremy Hunt (Charterhouse School in Surrey), Foreign Secretary James Cleverly (Colfe’s School in Greenwich, south-east London), and Home Secretary Suella Braverman (Heathfield School in Pinner, north-west London).

The proportion is broadly similar to Ms Truss’s cabinet (68 per cent) and Mr Johnson’s first cabinet (64 per cent), but much higher than the level in Theresa May’s 2016 cabinet (30 per cent).

It is also up on the figure for David Cameron’s 2015 cabinet (50 per cent) and well above the 32 per cent in Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s cabinets, though close to the 62 per cent in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition in 2010.

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The analysis has been published by social mobility charity The Sutton Trust, and it also shows nearly a quarter (23 per cent) of Mr Sunak’s Cabinet went to a comprehensive school while one in 10 attended a grammar school.

Among those who went to a comprehensive are leader of the Commons Penny Mordaunt, Transport Secretary Mark Harper and – perhaps symbolically – Education Secretary Gillian Keegan.

Sir Peter Lampl, founder and chairman of the Sutton Trust, said: “Rishi Sunak faces unprecedented challenges as he enters Number 10.

“In his new Cabinet, 65 per cent went to private schools – over nine times the number in the general population – and 45 per cent went to Oxbridge, more than double the average for all MPs.

“While his Cabinet is marginally more representative than Truss’s, Tuesday’s appointments highlight how unevenly spread opportunities to enter the most prestigious positions continue to be.

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Mr Sunak continues the tradition of nearly every UK prime minister since the Second World War having studied at Oxford University.

The one exception is Gordon Brown, who went to Edinburgh University.

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