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Even more privately educated toffs will crowd the corridors of power following May 2015

PARLIAMENT will be packed with even more of David Cameron’s posh pals after May, according to a new exposé of privilege that shows almost half of Tory candidates were privately educated.

A massive 52 per cent of current Tory MPs — including the Eton-educated Prime Minister — came into politics after receiving expensive private schooling.

And a new Sutton Trust dossier discloses how the Bullingdon Club boy is set to be joined by dozens more Tory toffs at the general election.

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