Since the Labour agenda in the run up to the election is to paint the Tories as a bunch of toffee-noses old Etonians, it’s with great pleasure (and not a little audacity) that I reproduce a list painstakingly drawn together by Working Class Tory.
This is the list of 58 Labour MPs who are known to have been privately educated.
- Ed Balls (Morley and Outwood)
- Hugh Bayley (City of York)
- Hilary Benn (Leeds Central)
- Bob Blizzard (Waveney)
- Chris Bryant (Rhondda)
- Charles Clarke (Norwich South)
- Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley)
- Jim Cousins (Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central)
- Alistair Darling (Edinburgh South West)
- Quentin Davies (Grantham and Stamford)
- Louise Ellman (Liverpool Riverside)
- Natascha Engel (North East Derbyshire)
- Mark Fisher (Stoke-on-Trent Central)
- Barry Gardiner (Brent North)
- Linda Gilroy (Plymouth Sutton)
- Paul Goggins (Wythenshawe and Sale East)
- Peter Hain (Neath)
- Patrick Hall (Bedford and Kempston)
- Fabian Hamilton (Leeds North East)
- Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham)
- John Healey (Wentworth)
- Margaret Hodge (Barking)
- Geoff Hoon (Ashfield)
- Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley)
- Tessa Jowell (Dulwich and West Norwood)
- Sally Keeble (Northampton North)
- Ruth Kelly (Bolton West)
- Jim Knight (South Dorset)
- Martin Linton (Battersea)
- Ian Lucas (Wrexham)
- Denis MacShane (Rotherham)
- Fiona Mactaggart (Slough)
- Judy Mallaber (Amber Valley)
- John Mann (Bassetlaw)
- Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West)
- Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South)
- Bob Marshall-Andrews (Medway)
- Michael Meacher (Oldham West and Royton)
- Chris Mole (Ipswich)
- Julie Morgan (Cardiff North)
- Doug Naysmith (Bristol North West)
- Nick Palmer (Broxtowe)
- Gordon Prentice (Pendle)
- James Purnell (Stalybridge and Hyde)
- Nick Raynsford (Greenwich and Woolwich)
- Geoffrey Robinson (Coventry North West)
- Andrew Slaughter (Ealing, Acton and Shepherd’s Bush)
- John Spellar (Warley)
- Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West)
- Howard Stoate (Dartford)
- Gavin Strang (Edinburgh East)
- Mark Todd (South Derbyshire)
- Kitty Ussher (Burnley)
- Keith Vaz (Leicester East)
- Malcolm Wicks (Croydon North)
- Michael Wills (Swindon North)
- Rosie Winterton (Doncaster Central)
- Shaun Woodward (St Helens South)
WCT comments:
Does anybody else notice the high frequency of past and present Cabinet members, as well as government ministers? I hope that isn’t an admission that a private education makes one more able to do a job.
It seems to me it’s an admission that, as with politicians all, it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.
AJ
UPDATE: A comment in this post over at the Coffeehouse points out that:
Brown should remember is the Labour Party’s biggest private benefactor during the last ten years with cash and loan contributions in excess of £15 million is none other than Old Etonian Lord David Sainsbury.Lord Sainsbury also went to Cambridge and became a Labour Minister.
Al Jahom's Final Word 
When looking at which school they went to, you are looking at the choices their parents made. If you want to find hypocricy, look at what schools the Labour assholes send their kids to.
Diane Abbot, for example.