Percentage of UK cabinet ministers who were privately educated, from 1945 to 2024 #PoliticsOnTheEdge 🌹
Keir Starmer’s new cabinet is the most representative – in terms of education backgrounds – ever recorded. This new cabinet marks a historic moment in British politics, with a record number of state-educated ministers and the lowest proportion of privately educated ministers since 1945.
The majority of the new cabinet attended comprehensive schools, at 92%, with 4% attending grammar schools and 4% attending private schools.
In terms of university attendance, the cabinet are more likely to have attended a narrow range of elite universities than MPs as a whole, as well as the UK population. Of the Ministers in Keir Starmer’s cabinet, 40% went to Oxbridge, compared to 19% of Labour MPs, 29% of Conservative MPs, and 21% of Liberal Democrat MPs.
As an undergraduate, Keir Starmer went to the University of Leeds, a Russell Group institution. He continues the trend of every Prime Minister who has attended an English university since 1937 attending Oxford - where he got his postgraduate degree.
With the new government and cabinet now in place, we’ve analysed the educational backgrounds of MPs in the Commons as well as Ministers serving in the cabinet www.suttontrust.com/our-research/parliamentary-privilege-2024
The stomping ground of the political elite: Why does Oxford produce so many Prime Ministers? www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion/all-news-opinion/the-sto...
Percentage of UK cabinet ministers who were privately educated, from 1945 to 2024 #PoliticsOnTheEdge 🌹
Keir Starmer’s new cabinet is the most representative – in terms of education backgrounds – ever recorded. This new cabinet marks a historic moment in British politics, with a record number of state-educated ministers and the lowest proportion of privately educated ministers since 1945.
The majority of the new cabinet attended comprehensive schools, at 92%, with 4% attending grammar schools and 4% attending private schools.
In terms of university attendance, the cabinet are more likely to have attended a narrow range of elite universities than MPs as a whole, as well as the UK population. Of the Ministers in Keir Starmer’s cabinet, 40% went to Oxbridge, compared to 19% of Labour MPs, 29% of Conservative MPs, and 21% of Liberal Democrat MPs.
As an undergraduate, Keir Starmer went to the University of Leeds, a Russell Group institution. He continues the trend of every Prime Minister who has attended an English university since 1937 attending Oxford - where he got his postgraduate degree.
With the new government and cabinet now in place, we’ve analysed the educational backgrounds of MPs in the Commons as well as Ministers serving in the cabinet www.suttontrust.com/our-research/parliamentary-privilege-2024
The stomping ground of the political elite: Why does Oxford produce so many Prime Ministers? www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion/all-news-opinion/the-sto...