Recent performance indicators published by the Higher Education Funding Council for England show Oxford and Cambridge clearly lagging behind in the proportion of young full-time first-degree entrants they take from state schools.
Also just scraping the 50 per cent mark are Bristol and Imperial. But fourth worst performer, excluding the medical schools, is the London School of Economics. With just 57 per cent of students state educated, it appears less of a practitioner of Labour's Third Way than it preaches.