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The Sutton Trust charity said 65% of the new Prime Minister’s top team atteded fee-paying schools – compared to around just 7% of the general public
Nearly two-thirds of Rishi Sunak’s newly appointed Cabinet attended a private school, a new analysis reveals.
The educational charity The Sutton Trust said 65% of the Prime Minister’s top team went to fee-paying schools – over double that of Theresa May’s 2019 Cabinet.
The proportion is similar to Boris Johnson’s first Cabinet but three percentage points lower than Liz Truss’s government that was brought to a bitter end on Tuesday.
It shows that members of the Cabinet are a staggering nine times more likely to have gone to an independent school compared to the general population.