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A Question Time audience member has fumed at the dominance of privately educated politicians during a debate about private schools during the programme in Aberystwyth. The debate was
prompted by the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer's vow to end the charitable status of private schools. The man raged that given the many political errors of recent years that private
schools should be abolished altogether. He said: "Not all, but most of our recent Prime Ministers and most of the cabinet have all had private education. "When we consider the many
disasters they've visited on us, is that not a better excuse to close the damn things down." Prime Minister Rishi Sunak attended the £45,936-a-year Winchester College where he was
head boy after attending Stroud School a prep school. Other privately educated members of the cabinet include Chancellor Jeremy Hunt (Charterhouse School in Surrey), Foreign Secretary James
Cleverly (Colfe’s School in Greenwich, south-east London), and Home Secretary Suella Braverman (Heathfield School in Pinner, north-west London). Liz Truss was a political exception as she
was the first Prime Minister to attend a Comprehensive School throughout her secondary education at Roundhay School in Leeds. Boris Johnson attended Ashdown House prep school from 1975 to
1977 before gaining a scholarship to study at the famous Eton College. Theresa May initially attended a state primary school Heythrop Primary School followed by a spell at a private Catholic
school St. Juliana's Convent School for Girls before winning a place at a Grammar School. READ MORE: EU APPROVES NEW LAW TO PUNISH UK WITH BREXIT SANCTIONS IN LATEST BLOW Seventy
percent of Labour MPs attended Comprehensives, compared to 41 percent of Conservatives. It comes after Sir Keir Starmer accused Rishi Sunak of "trickle-down education" calling for
an end to the "scandal" of tax breaks to private schools. Sir Keir quoted Michael Gove who had made a similar argument during the 2017 general election calling the tax breaks
received by private schools as a "burning injustice".