Since 1945 seven Prime Ministers have attended state schools:
- Boris Johnson (private school)
- Theresa May (private school, then from age 13 a state school)
- David Cameron (private school)
- Gordon Brown (state school)
- Tony Blair (private school)
- John Major (state school)
- Margaret Thatcher (state school)
- James Callaghan (state school)
- Harold Wilson (state school)
- Edward Heath (state school)
- Alec Douglas-Home (private school)
- Harold MacMillan (private school then home tutoring due to illness)
- Anthony Eden (private school)
- Winston Churchill (private school)
- Clement Attlee (private school)
Comprehensive was merely the term adopted to describe state schools when the 11+ was abolished.
Applause as Truss says “I stand here as the first prime minister of our country to have gone to a comprehensive school.” pic.twitter.com/bhuhUDOeFo
— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) October 5, 2022
And when she went to university she failed to get an Honours.
Members of Truss’ Cabinet are almost ten times as likely to have attended independent schools than the wider population, while more than a third attended Oxford or Cambridge universities.
Penny Lane
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