 of Sunak's cabinet went to a comprehensive school, while one in 10 attended a grammar school. The PM has continued a trend set by his predecessors Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, who also filled a majority of Cabinet positions with private school pupils. The proportion is slightly below Truss's cabinet, on 68%, and just above Johnson's first cabinet, which had 64%, but much higher than the level in Theresa May's 2016 cabinet, which boasted just 30%. Sunak, together with his wife, is worth hundreds of millions of pounds and has donated more than £100,000 to his old school – leading to questions about whether he will govern in the interests of ordinary people. Half of David Cameron's 2015 cabinet went to independent schools – less than the 62% in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition in 2010 but well above the 32% in Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's cabinets, Among those who went to a comprehensive are the leader of the Commons, the defeated leadership candidate Penny Mordaunt, transport secretary Mark Harper and – perhaps symbolically – the new education secretary Gillian Keegan. Sir Peter Lampl, the Sutton Trust's founder and chairman, said: 'Rishi Sunak faces unprecedented challenges){kind=link}
Rishi Sunak’s new cabinet is stacked with MPs who went to fee-paying schools, a new analysis has revealed.
Some 65% of his top team, including the prime minister himself, went to private school, according to The Sutton Trust.
That compares to around 7% of the public – almost ten times less.
The cabinet also faces question marks about gender, as well as class.
Among the cabinet ministers who attended independent schools are Sunak, who went to Winchester College, and his three most senior colleagues: chancellor Jeremy Hunt, at Charterhouse School in Surrey, foreign secretary James Cleverly, at Colfe’s School in Greenwich, and home secretary Suella Braverman, at Heathfield School in Pinner, north-west London.