By Matt Chorley, Mailonline Political Editor PUBLISHED: 08:49 EST, 15 November 2013 | UPDATED: 10:00 EST, 15 November 2013 William Hague said it would be harder now for a comprehensive pupil to become Foreign Secretary now It is harder today for a state-educated teenager to reach the top than a generation ago, William Hague has admitted. The Foreign Secretary, who attended a Yorkshire comprehensive, warned there has been a ‘disturbing’ decline in social mobility over the past three decades. But as the row over the Cabinet being dominated by a privately-educated elite rumbles on, Mr Hague insisted he had ‘never felt socially inferior to anybody’.
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Foreign Secretary warns of 'disturbing' decline in social mobility
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Inists he had ‘never felt socially inferior to anybody', including royalty
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Sir John Major said it was 'shocking' how society is dominated by wealthy
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Remarks were seen as a swipe at David Cameron's Eton-educated Cabinet
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Education Secretary Michael Gove said Sir John is right to be concerned
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