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The last Cambridge PM was a Tory, Stanley Baldwin, in the 1920s and 1930s.

Just read this on the Daily Fail about the Labour leadership contest.

um.. Discuss?
if that's correct then I'd say "wow labour, wow"
Original post by zippity.doodah
if that's correct then I'd say "wow labour, wow"

Why?
I'm not quite seeing why that fact should be significant, OP...?
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Original post by gladders
I'm not quite seeing why that fact should be significant, OP...?


I think the only exception between then and now has been John Major who didn't attend university, everyone else attended Oxford.

David Cameron - Oxford
Gordon Brown - Edinburgh (unelected)
Tony Blair - Oxford
John Major
Margaret Thatcher - Oxford..

Its not as if it is a fix but it's fascinating that this has happened, one of those things.
Original post by Protagoras
I think the only exception between then and now has been John Major who didn't attend university, everyone else attended Oxford.

David Cameron - Oxford
Gordon Brown - Edinburgh (unelected)
Tony Blair - Oxford
John Major
Margaret Thatcher - Oxford..

Its not as if it is a fix but it's fascinating that this has happened, one of those things.


You've skipped a dozen Prime Ministers between Baldwin and Thatcher.
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Gordon Brown - Edinburgh (unelected)


Gordon Brown was PM as legitimately as any other PM.
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Original post by RayApparently
You've skipped a dozen Prime Ministers between Baldwin and Thatcher.


I really didn't think I needed to, but for those meticulous amongst us..

David Cameron - Oxford
Gordon Brown - Edinburgh (unelected)
Tony Blair - Oxford
John Major
Margaret Thatcher - Oxford
James Callaghan
Harold Wilson - Jesus College, Oxford, M.A. Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Edward Heath - Oxford
Harold Wilson - Jesus College, Oxford, M.A. Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Alec Douglas-Home - Christ Church, Oxford, M.A. History
Harold Macmillan - Balliol College, Oxford, M.A. Classics
Anthony Eden - Christ Church, Oxford, M.A. Oriental Languages
Winston Churchill
Clement Attlee - University College, Oxford, M.A. History
Winston Churchill
Neville Chamberlain - Mason College (University of Birmingham)
1935 - 1937 Stanley Baldwin - Trinity College, Cambridge, M.A. History
More significant surely is the number who did not go to university being so few, and the number of MPs nowadays who did not have a job beforehand outside the world of politics.

As to the possible future:
Gideon Osborne, Magdalen College, Oxford
Theresa May, St Hugh's College, Oxford
Jeremy Corbyn, London Metropolitan University (as known now)
Andy Burnham, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
Yvette Cooper, Balliol College, Oxford
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Original post by gladders
Gordon Brown was PM as legitimately as any other PM.


Yeah, Churchill for instance never won the popular vote as leader in a general election and was chosen as PM in 1940 by the 'men behind the scenes'.
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Why?


...because I assume that labour have had more cambridge-types recently than the conservatives?
Original post by zippity.doodah
...because I assume that labour have had more cambridge-types recently than the conservatives?

Not a single Cambridge graduate has become Labour leader.
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Original post by Protagoras
I really didn't think I needed to, but for those meticulous amongst us..

David Cameron - Oxford
Gordon Brown - Edinburgh (unelected)
Tony Blair - Oxford
John Major
Margaret Thatcher - Oxford
James Callaghan
Harold Wilson - Jesus College, Oxford, M.A. Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Edward Heath - Oxford
Harold Wilson - Jesus College, Oxford, M.A. Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Alec Douglas-Home - Christ Church, Oxford, M.A. History
Harold Macmillan - Balliol College, Oxford, M.A. Classics
Anthony Eden - Christ Church, Oxford, M.A. Oriental Languages
Winston Churchill
Clement Attlee - University College, Oxford, M.A. History
Winston Churchill
Neville Chamberlain - Mason College (University of Birmingham)
1935 - 1937 Stanley Baldwin - Trinity College, Cambridge, M.A. History

Does it actually matter?
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Cambridge teaches clever people.

Oxford teaches leadership.

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