Education and Skills Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 5:51 pm on 10 June 2008.

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Photo of Lord Pilkington of Oxenford Lord Pilkington of Oxenford Conservative 5:51, 10 June 2008

My Lords, I realise that it is not etiquette to say this, but, as a product of the north-east where I was brought up and educated, I have to say that from a family that had never gone to university, five of us went to Oxford and Cambridge. I am talking about the early 1950s. I have to defend my locality; it was not as bad as the noble Baroness says.