Guess what proportion of MPs privately educated in each party. Go on, guess!

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And no cheating if you have read it in the papers already!

interesting article showing how much social mobility has declined in politics from the days of Wilson, Healey, Thatcher etc. The destruction of grammar schools has lessened the chances of the working and middle classes.
www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1278554/How-privileged-Cabinet-damning-indictment-Britains-compre hensives.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

i agree claig re bringing back the grammars and bright children from poorer families having the right to better education

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Thanks for the link Claig. One thing I hadn't appreciated. When Ken Clarke went to Nottingham High School is was a grammar school. Then, when Ed Balls dad (Michael Balls) successfully campaigned to have all his local grammar schools closed - it went private. And then Michael Balls sent his son there. So when Ed Balls gets all sniffy about his school not being a 'public school' he's right. He actually had a grammar school education - at a fee paying grammar school from which bright but poorer kids had been excluded (thanks to his dad). Yuck - That actually turns my stomach!

Surely some are part state/part private though?

A lot more kids go to private secondary than primary.

I wonder what the numbers are for fully private vs fully state?