Hat-tip to Politicalbetting.com, which has a striking chart showing that all election-winning prime ministers with degrees since 1935 attended Oxford. (Churchill and Major didn’t go to university.)
Does this have any bearing on the current contest? Perhaps. Of the three party leaders this time, only Cameron went to Oxford; Brown attended Edinburgh and Clegg Cambridge.
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