May 30 2007
The spinning six - where were they educated?
At a time when the 6 deputy Leadership candidates are lurching to the left and keen to condemn privilege it is perhaps useful to remind ourselves how they got where they are today.
Hilary Benn?? Holland Park Comprehensive?? BA Sussex
Hazel Blears?? Wardley GS, BA?? Trent Poly
John Cruddas Oaklands Comprehensive, BSC/MA/PHD Warwick University
Alan Johnson?????? Sloane Grammar School Chelsea
Peter Hain???? Emmanuel School Wandsworth, BSc Queen Mary London,?? M.Phil Sussex
Harriet Harman?? St Paul’s Girls School?? BA York University
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John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College...
They suffered a good education so the rest of us plebs don’t have to then?
Benn and Cruddas went to comps and Johnson dropped after GCSE. Cruddas has a pile of university qualifications but I thought he was opposed to the charges on students?
In any case, the whole contest is an irrelevancy in policy terms - the job will carry very little genuine policy influence.
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