Burnham’s first task should be to outlaw Oxford PPE. Vital step to restore long-term political stability and calm the bond market
Simon Nixon
This is the reason I think the term 'Oxbridge' is actively unhelpful, it makes the problem seem 50 per cent less bad than it is!
Stephen Bush
Side note: if Andy Burnham becomes PM, he'll be the first one educated at Cambridge since Stanley Baldwin, who matriculated in 1885.
Robert Hanks
This kind of thinking seeps into their mental model of unis too. Since a lot of senior MPs went to Oxbridge (or even just Oxford), they imagine, say, debate is a large part of the experience when 1) most unis don't have a debating union 2) most students don't attend a single extracurricular event.
