The background of our Prime Ministers hugely influences the judgements they make. Yet our leaders are drawn from an astonishingly narrow slice of society: every PM who attended an English university since WW2 went to Oxford, for instance. Why should we care about the persistence of social elites at the top of British politics, asks Lee Elliot Major? And to what extent - if any - do Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer buck the trend?

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16 April 2024

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LSE Inequalities

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https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities/2024/04/16/prime-ministers-origins-impact-their-political-worldviews/

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