Privately-educated fill top jobs in ‘deeply elitist’ Britain

Britain is still "deeply elitist", with privately-educated pupils and Oxbridge graduates continuing to dominate top roles in society, a report has warned.

Many of the nation’s judges, politicians, armed forces chiefs, journalists, TV executives, public officials and sports stars attended fee-paying schools before going to study at Oxford and Cambridge, it suggests.

This stark lack of diversity means many of Britain’s key institutions are not representative of the public they serve, and the people running them may not understand the daily issues facing people from different backgrounds, according to the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission.