The proportion of MPs who went to independent schools has reversed a downward trend in recent decades, the study claims, rising from 32 per cent in 2005 to 35 per cent of this Parliament. About 7 per cent of the school population is privately educated.

One factor behind the increase is the higher number of Conservative MPs, who are more likely than their Labour peers to have been privately-educated. While 15 per cent of Labour MPs went to independent schools, this was the case for 40 per cent of Liberal Democrats and 54 per cent of Tories. There are 20 Old Etonians serving as MPs, a rise of a third on 2005.

Nearly two fifths of Conservative MPs were educated at Oxford or Cambridge, compared with a fifth of Labour’s and 28 per cent of the Liberal Democrat representatives.

- Newly-elected Parliament ‘does not reflect society at large’, The Times, May 10, 2010.

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