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PM drafts in yet more old bankers, millionaires and public school spivs

MOST Tory ministers appointed by Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday are either millionaires or went to posh private schools.

Mr Cameron promised a “ministry of all the talents” as he revealed who would be part of Britain’s first all-Tory Cabinet for 18 years. 

But a Star analysis shows the parade of Tory MPs being given top government jobs includes at least 14 millionaires, alongside a bevy of silver-spoon scions of wealthy houses waiting to inherit family empires. They include Chancellor George Osborne and Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, who are expected to cut child benefit in a bid to slash welfare spending by £12 billion. 

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