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The Telegraph
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The Telegraph
The dominance of a private-school educated elite and well-heeled middle class
in the “upper echelons” of public life in Britain is “truly shocking”, Sir
John Major has said.
The former Conservative Prime Minister said he was appalled that “every single
sphere of British influence” in society is dominated by men and women who
went to private school or who are from the “affluent middle class”
More than half of the Cabinet, including David Cameron, the Prime Minister,
George Osborne, the Chancellor, and Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister,
are thought to have gone to private school and are independently very
wealthy.
In the speech to Tory party grassroots activists on Friday evening, Sir John -
who went to a comprehensive in south London and left school with three
O-Levels - said: “In every single sphere of British influence, the upper
echelons of power in 2013 are held overwhelmingly by the privately educated
or the affluent middle class. To me from my background, I find that truly
shocking.”
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