Times Higher Education highlighted the fact that nine out of ten new MPs in the House of Commons are graduates according to a new Sutton Trust report.

The figures, from the Sutton Trust, also show 28 per cent went to another Russell Group university.

Today’s figures follow the Trust’s February 2015 research, Parliamentary Privilege – the Candidates, which analysed the educational backgrounds of prospective parliamentary candidates.

The new research brief, Parliamentary Privilege – the MPs, also shows that around half (48 per cent) of Conservative MPs were privately educated, compared with 14 per cent of Liberal Democrats, 5 per cent of SNP MPs for whom the Trust has data and 17 per cent of Labour MPs.

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