51.5% of Labour MP’s are women and 20% of Labour MP’s are BAME.
But what about the class background of MP’s?
29% of MP’s went to private school (7% of the population did), 14% of Labour MP’s went to private school.
25% of MP’s went to Oxbridge (0.5% of the population did)
50% of MP’s went to the Russell Group of Universities, 24 ‘top’ universities (11% of the population did).
In 1979, 15% of MP’s came from ‘blue-collar’ backgrounds. In 2019, 3% did!
What cost equality?