Boris Johnson’s resignation means there are no more Old Etonians in the Cabinet
For the first time in almost half a century, there is no former pupil from the renowned boarding school, sitting at the Government's top table
BORIS Johnson quitting Government means there are now no Old Etonians in the Cabinet for the first time in nearly half a century, it emerged last night.
Since 1974 there has always been a former Eton pupil as a Cabinet minister, including David Cameron as PM.
Mr Cameron promoted an array of Old Etonians to his inner circle, including party grandee Oliver Letwin and Boris’s brother Jo Johnson, as well as his then chief of staff Ed Llewellyn and George Osborne’s chief economic guru Rupert Harrison.
But Theresa May was praised for appointing the lowest proportion of ministers from fee-paying schools since Labour’s Clement Attlee in 1945 when she set up her Cabinet in 2016.
Less than a third of them had a private education compared with David Cameron’s 2015 Cabinet which had 43 per cent.
Mr Johnson was the last Old Etonian standing before he quit on Monday.
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