Letters: Eton's right turn

<P>Headteachers and others have rightly criticised Jesse Norman for saying Etonians' dominance of government results from other schools not having the same "commitment to public service" (Report, 27 April). But the extraordinary feature is that the Etonian conception of public service is overwhelmingly Conservative and increasingly so. Of the 20 old Etonian MPs elected in 2010, 19 are Conservatives (the outlier is a Lib Dem). Why does Eton develop so remarkably uniform a

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