Liz Truss claimed today she was the first prime minister to have “gone to a comprehensive school”.
But this is incorrect, according to the government’s own website, which states Theresa May attended a comprehensive school.
Previous prime ministers also attended non-selected state schools before the “comprehensive” label was used.
May attended Holton Park Girls’ Grammar School in Oxfordshire, but the school became a comprehensive school in 1971 while she was a pupil there.
