Gove: 'Ridiculous' number of Etonians in PM's circle
Education Secretary Michael Gove has attacked the "ridiculous" numbers of Old Etonians in David Cameron's inner circle.
Labour: Gove comments show Tories are 'out of touch'
Michael Gove's comments about Old Etonians were seized on by Labour as evidence that the Conservatives are "out of touch" with the concerns of ordinary people in Britain.
Among the Old Etonians around the Prime Minister - himself a former Eton boy - are his chief of staff, Ed Llewellyn; the head of his policy unit, Jo Johnson; the minister for government policy, Oliver Letwin; and Chancellor George Osborne's chief economic adviser, Rupert Harrison.
Mr Gove compared them to the cabinet of Eton-educated Tory prime minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, the Marquess of Salisbury, who was criticised for alleged nepotism and cronyism.
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