The most powerful and influential people in the UK remain five times more likely to have been privately educated than the general population. Meanwhile, almost two fifths attended private school (37%). FTSE100 chairs were even more likely to be privately educated than their CEOs, and more likely to be Oxbridge-educated too. Of those educated in the UK, just 1 in 10 went to a state comprehensive, while two thirds (68%) were privately educated. The gap is particularly prominent amongst newspaper columnists (50% privately educated), podcasters (45%), political commentators (47%) and BBC executives (38%).