At the age of 13, after prep school, Cameron and Johnson progressed to Eton. The most convincing reason to go to a private school remains to have gone to a private school, with the prizes that are statistically likely to follow. Seventeen out of 27 members of Johnson’s full cabinet in 2020 went to private school. Private schools account for nearly 70% of the judges and barristers in the country. Cameron likewise turned his back on the mess he’d made with the serenity of a public school boy whose ancestors had been public school boys too.

Source: The Guardian August 08, 2021 06:00 UTC