This has been doing the rounds on Twitter over the last 24 hours or so. You've probably seen it already. In fact you've probably seen it about a thousand times already. It's likely that you're so sick of it that you're ready to punch the television at the mere mention of it. So, with that public health warning out the way, here it is again:

Blair's 1st Cabinet: 17% Oxbridge. The new Cabinet: 65% Oxbridge, 61% private school, over 90% white, middle aged men. #newsnight.

The BBC lists Blair's first cabinet here. There are 24 people, which means that Bacon is claiming that 4 of them went to Oxbridge.

A quick check of Wikipedia shows that Blair, Chris Smith, Lord Irvine, Robin Butler, Ivor Richard and Gavin Strang (a diploma only) studied at Oxbridge.

So, depending on whether or not you count Strang, that's 5 or 6, not 4, for a proportion of 21-25%.

It's a pity that he didn't check his facts more carefully before blathering off. There's still time for him to make a correction.

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