There has been much talk about the diversity of Liz Truss’s new Cabinet. Even US news outlet NPR reported:
It is notable that for the first time in British history, none of the four most senior ministerial positions — prime minister, finance minister, foreign secretary and home secretary — have been taken up by a white male.
The Guardian reported that, by contrast, ‘in 2001 91 per cent of Conservative MPs were male, and every single one of them was white’.
But what about the educational backgrounds of the current Cabinet? In her speech to the Tory Party Conference, Truss infamously claimed to be the first PM to have ‘gone to a comprehensive school’. The claim elicited controversy, with Schools Week running the headline, ‘Government’s own website contradicts Truss’s comprehensive PM claim’.
