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Looking further into other findings of the Sutton Trust and one discovers that the most influential people in the UK are more than 5 x more likely to have been educated at a fee-paying school than the general population - just 6% of the latter is privately educated, compared to 39% in top positions. This is part of a report titled "Elitist Britain 2019". The most common jobs were senior judges (65%), civil service permanent secretaries (59%), House of Lords members (57%) and FCO diplomats (52%). I would add that the majority of these people speak with an artificial snobby accent, they vote Tory, love the Royal family, they shop at Harrods or possibly Waitrose and many of them genuinely believe that they are better human beings than mere mortals who have attained less or attained exceptionally great success in state schools. The report's reference to 2019 is IMO a misnomer because this disproportionate representation has been going on for a long, long time in the UK and is an absolute disgrace when one considers that we are well into the 21st century and compare this type of bias/favouritism in many Euro countries - it disnae exist and rightly so because they favour equal opps for all their kids!!!