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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Robyn Vinter North of England correspondent

Privately educated still have ‘vice-like grip’ on most powerful UK jobs

Boy pupils of Eton play sports in front of a grand school building.
The former prime ministers Boris Johnson and David Cameron attended Eton College, as did many of their predecessors. Photograph: Maureen McLean/Alamy

The privately educated are tightening their “vice-like grip” on some of the most powerful and influential roles in British society, such as FTSE 100 chairs, newspaper columnists and BBC executives, a report has found.

Those in the most important positions are five times as likely to have attended private school than the general population, showing it is still possible to “buy advantage”, according to the Sutton Trust.

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