- What Good Is Wall Street? John Cassidy, New Yorker, November 28, 2010.

4. Politicians have become less representative of society, with more than a third educated privately and almost three in ten being graduates of Oxford or Cambridge, research shows today.

Analysis of MPs’ background shows that the new House of Commons is more socially exclusive than it was in 2005. The study found information on the education of more than 600 of the 650 newly elected and re-elected Members of Parliament. Nine in ten were university educated and nearly one in six went to Oxford. Fewer than half of MPs went to comprehensive schools, with the remainder taught at grammar or independent schools. Thirteen schools — 12 of them fee charging — produced a tenth of all MPs.

Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust, an educational equality charity that conducted the research, said: “These results show clearly that the educational profile of our representatives in the 2010 Parliament does not reflect society at large.”

“There are many factors that determine the make-up of Parliament, but one major obstacle to ensuring talented people from all backgrounds reach public office is the educational inequality that continues to hold back social mobility in this country.

“Every newly elected MP would surely hope that the chances that bright children in their own constituencies have of becoming an MP, does not depend on how much their parents earn and where they happen to go to school.”

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