A majority of Rishi Sunak’s cabinet attended private schools, continuing a trend that also applied under Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.
The Sutton Trust, a social mobility charity, said about 65 per cent of the new cabinet had been educated at fee-paying institutions.
They include the holders of all of the great offices of state. Sunak went to Winchester College, Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, attended Charterhouse, James Cleverly, the foreign secretary, was at Colfe’s School in Greenwich, southeast London and Suella Braverman, the home secretary, was educated at Heathfield School in Pinner, northwest London.
Ben Wallace, the defence secretary – who was in Istanbul yesterday to visit a weapons exhibition – attended Millfield School, Somerset.
The proportion of privately educated members is about