Press Association report of the Sutton Trust candidates’ research.

The prevalence of private school and Oxbridge educations at the House of Commons is set to continue after the general election, according to research.

A study by the Sutton Trust found 31% of new candidates with a reasonable chance of winning were privately educated – only slightly below the 33% total in the current parliament.

By contrast, the figure for the population as a whole is just 7%.

Read the PA report, used by many local and national news sites, at BT.com news here.