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Downstream: We Must Ban Private Schools w/ Richard Beard

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The Importance of Private Schools in Politics

I've always thought it should happen. If you can't ban them outright, you could introduce a 7% cap in any taxpayer-funded institution. So only 7% people who are allowed at a university or the civil service or the judiciary or politics for that matter can come from private schools. Because when you no longer have the unfair advantage, what's the point? Well, exactly. But if you break that link, that again will be a useful way of moving forward. Oxford and Cambridge have a very important role to play here. I mean, the trouble is with that is that if you can still go to private schools and then go to Stanford or Heidelberg or something, they

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