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Whatever the election result, Parliament still won't reflect society

Whatever the election result, Parliament still won't reflect society

Regardless of who wins the general election in May, the Commons will still have a disproportionate number of privately-educated MPs, many of whom have Oxbridge degrees.

A new study on the educational backgrounds of prospective parliamentary candidates in winnable seats (and therefore representative of the Commons' likely make-up in May) was undertaken by Dr Robert de Vries at the University of Oxford (yes, we appreciate the irony).

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