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Who speaks up for poor white boys when it comes to their education?

They are now the lowest-achieving group in Britain

6 February 2016

9:00 AM

6 February 2016

9:00 AM

David Cameron can be a frustrating figure at times. He wrote an article for the Sunday Times this week in which he drew attention to the under-representation of disadvantaged students in Britain’s universities, which he was quite right to do. But he is wrong about the ethnicity of those students and wrong about where the problem lies.

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