Private or Comprehensive education; not either/or thanks to CL

Their grip on power is most noticeable in the judiciary, where 74 per cent of leading judges (those in the High Court or Court of Appeal) were privately educated.

Research findings by the Sutton Trust, which campaigns for equal access to education for all, has been extensively quoted on this blog.

Figures in the report also show that one in three MPs (32 per cent) was privately educated – as were half the members of the Conservative Cabinet, and 71 per cent of senior Army officers – two-star generals and above – went to private schools.

The list goes on – in medicine, 61 per cent of doctors were privately educated while 22 per cent went to selective state grammar schools and just 16 per cent to comprehensives. 48 per cent of civil servants were educated  privately, 29 per cent went to selective grammar schools and 23 per cent to comprehensives.