The Education Secretary branded comprehensive pupils poorly educated and Labour MPs as "in the main thick" in a letter to his student newspaper.
Newly appointed schools chief Kit Malthouse took aim at a fellow student's "ill-phrased, ponderous letter" - saying it was "obviously written by someone with a less than adequate education”, which “probably” meant they went to a “comprehensive" school.
In a letter to the Newcastle University newspaper in 1988, obtained by the Telegraph, 22-year-old Malthouse said that Labour MPs are "in the main thick, with a generally lower IQ than other MPs", whereas Tory MPs are “highly-educated, intelligent professionals, with experience in the real world”.
