Here is an answer I wrote back in 2007:
I wonder then why so many of our PM's and have come from private fee paying schools?
Sorry Jake but whilst I agree with some of your sentiments, this argument does not hold up:
Brown went to Kirkcaldy, a comprehensive school.
John Major went to Rutlish Grammar School
Thatcher went to Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School (also a Grammar School)
Calagham went to Portsmouth Northern Secondary School
and Wilson went to Royds Hall Secondary School (another Grammar)
Heath went to Chatham House Grammar School
So apart from Blair, you have to go back to Alec Douglas-Home in 1963 before the primeministers were privately educated.
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There is a common misnomer that all Tory politicians went to public schools - something that labour supporters would like to continue.
Currently, the election campaign is in full swing and it is all about making the electorate vote for you. A good tactic is to try and point out that you went to the same type of school as the vast majority of people where as your opponent didn't.