William Hague: ‘Thankfully we have the best training secretary in residing memory, who is trying to put [falling specifications] correct.’ Photograph: Chris Jackson/Getty Pictures
Extensive-educated young children will locate it more challenging to turn out to be senior cabinets ministers in the potential as a consequence of falling specifications in state training, the foreign secretary, William Hague, has stated.
In his initial response to the claim by Sir John Main that privately educated individuals dominate every single sphere of British daily life, Hague advised social mobility had moved backwards because he attended a comprehensive college in Rotherham in the late 1970s.
Asked about Major’s remarks, Hague told BBC Radio 4′s Right now programme from the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Sri Lanka: “I did go to a comprehensive school and I have grow to be foreign secretary so not every little thing goes to men and women privately educated.
“The disturbing thing I would say is that in the thirty-odd many years because I was at a thorough college I consider almost certainly in these intervening decades it will have grow to be a bit harder for somebody from a thorough college to turn out to be the foreign secretary of the potential or whatever other position they might aspire to.
“That reflects on a lengthy period of this nation falling also far behind in state education in the globe. Fortunately we now have the ideal schooling secretary in living memory, or longer, who is trying to put that proper.”
Hague laughed off ideas that his background may make him come to feel socially inferior to David Cameron, who attended Eton.
He said: “I can tell you getting grown in South Yorkshire, in Rotherham, and been to a neighborhood comprehensive school I have never felt socially inferior to anyone and I have met most of the kings, presidents, Queens and princes of the globe.”
State schools" failings hamper social mobility, says William Hague
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