“Our examination of who gets the top jobs in Britain today found elitism so stark that it could be called ‘social engineering’.”
This is the damning conclusion of new research that set out to discover “who is in charge of our country”.
The resulting report, Elitist Britain, highlights “a dramatic over-representation” of those educated at independent schools and Oxbridge within the institutions that have the most influence on our country.
The investigation has been undertaken by the government’s Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission and its chair, Alan Milburn MP, in his foreword to the report, says its findings suggest that Britain is “deeply elitist”.
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