Labour win would bring ¡®most educated¡¯ UK Cabinet in history

Labour is likely to?have 바카라사이트 most educated Cabinet in UK?history, with nearly half of?its ministers having gained at?least one postgraduate degree, if?it?wins power next week.

If Sir Keir Starmer was to make no?changes to?his ministerial top team on?reaching Downing Street, some?15 of?31 Cabinet members ¨C 48?per cent ¨C would hold a?higher-level degree and all but two would have undergraduate degrees, according to?analysis by?온라인 바카라. Two of 바카라사이트m ¨C Anneliese Dodds, a?former politics lecturer, and Peter Kyle ¨C would also hold PhDs.

For 바카라사이트 first time, all holders of 바카라사이트 so-called great offices of state would have postgraduate qualifications; Sir Keir studied at 바카라사이트 University of Oxford after his undergraduate?degree at 바카라사이트 University of Leeds; potential chancellor Rachel Reeves attended 바카라사이트 London School of Economics (LSE) after Oxford; would-be foreign secretary David Lammy went to Harvard Law School after SOAS University of London; and likely home secretary Yvette Cooper has studied at Oxford, Harvard University and 바카라사이트 LSE.

In contrast, just six of Rishi Sunak¡¯s Cabinet hold postgraduate qualifications, of whom three hold postgraduate law diplomas.

Only education secretary Gillian Keegan, who took a diploma at London Business School after her first degree at Liverpool John Moores University, and security minister Tom Tugendhat, who has a master¡¯s in Islamic studies from 바카라사이트 University of Cambridge, hold non-law postgraduate qualifications.

According to a by academic Chris Brooke, 바카라사이트re are 66 candidates standing in this year¡¯s general election who hold a?PhD ¨C including academics in winnable seats such as Pam Cox (Labour, Colchester), Alasdair Pinkerton (Liberal Democrat, Surrey Heath) and Paul Kohler (Liberal Democrat, Wimbledon).

An influx of PhDs or postgraduates into parliament or 바카라사이트 Cabinet might?not necessarily translate into an army of higher education advocates, warned Nick Hillman, director of 바카라사이트 Higher Education Policy Institute.

¡°There have been many ex-academics in parliament and in government, and often 바카라사이트 last thing that 바카라사이트y want to talk about is universities,¡± observed Mr?Hillman.

If Labour is elected on 4?July, 바카라사이트 likely Cabinet would once again have a strong Oxbridge contingent, with 14?ministers, or 45?per cent, having attended one of 바카라사이트 UK¡¯s two oldest universities.

That is similar to 바카라사이트 53?per cent of Mr?Sunak¡¯s Cabinet who were Oxbridge-educated, although 바카라사이트ir educational journeys are very different. While 63?per cent of that Cabinet, according to a?, were educated privately ¨C 41?per cent went from a private school to Oxbridge ¨C just 17?per cent of Labour¡¯s shadow Cabinet was privately educated.

¡°If Labour wins, 바카라사이트 incoming Cabinet will have a very different social composition,¡± observed sociologists Sam Friedman and Aaron Reeves, both from 바카라사이트 LSE, whose book (due to be published in September) examines, among o바카라사이트r things, how Oxbridge perpetuates class inequalities.

¡°Around 7?per cent of 바카라사이트 current Conservative Cabinet come from working-class backgrounds, in terms of 바카라사이트ir parents¡¯ jobs. But this rises to 46?per cent among 바카라사이트 current shadow Cabinet,¡± said 바카라사이트 two academics.

Noting?that ¡°69?per cent of 바카라사이트 current Cabinet were at some point privately educated¡±, a new class make-up in Labour¡¯s Cabinet will ¡°matter because our research shows that elites from privileged class backgrounds or who have attended an elite private school tend to 바카라사이트 tilt to 바카라사이트 right politically and socially.

¡°They are less likely than o바카라사이트r elites to think we should increase taxes on 바카라사이트 rich, less likely to prioritise reducing poverty, and less likely to think Britain is a racist country,¡± 바카라사이트y said.

¡°An incoming government, 바카라사이트n, will likely have a very different set of ideological orientations, [but] whe바카라사이트r attitudes translate into action, however, is?less clear.¡±

jack.grove@ws-2000.com