Shami Chakrabarti was state-educated and has criticised grammar schools, but sent her son to the private Dulwich College, which costs £18,000 a year

Jeremy Corbyn, leader

Briefly attended a fee-paying preparatory school, Castle House School in Shropshire, before moving to a state primary and then a grammar. Spent his early years in the picturesque Wiltshire village of Kington St Michael. When he was seven the family moved to a seven-bedroom manor house in Shropshire. Mother was a maths teacher, father an engineer.



Seumas Milne, director of communications and strategy



Seumas Milne is the son of a former BBC director-general REX FEATURES

Like his father, the late BBC director-general Alasdair Milne, Mr Corbyn’s close ally went to Winchester College, the independent boarding school, and Oxford University. During his time at Winchester he ran on a Maoist ticket in a mock election.

Mr Milne worked at The Economist and moved to The Guardian where he was labour editor and comment editor. While