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Twice as many MPs went to Oxford University as went to Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, Liverpool and Newcastle universities combined.

Exclusive research by the Daily Mirror data unit has identified 96 MPs who are known to have obtained the undergraduate degrees from Oxford.

A further 56 got their first degrees from Cambridge, while 399 are known to have graduated from another university.

That means Oxford and Cambridge account for more than a quarter (27%) of all degrees obtained by MPs.

Only 17 went to the next most popular universities (Durham and the London School of Economics), with 15 at Edinburgh, 14 at Hull, 13 at Manchester and 12 at Glasgow.

MPs' undergraduate degrees

Some 11 went to Aberystwyth, 11 to Birmingham, 11 to University College London, nine to each of Exeter and Nottingham and eight to Bristol, Leeds, Sheffield and York.

Six went to Newcastle and five to Liverpool.

Oxford and Cambridge Universities are split into colleges - and 10 MPs graduated from a single college, Balliol in Oxford.

They include Boris Johnson and his younger brother Jo Johnson, the Tory MP for Orpington.

Other the other eight, five are Conservatives - Robin Walker (Worcester), Damian Green (Ashford), Julian Lewis (New Forest East), Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West) and Rory Stewart (Penrith and the Border).

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Three are Labour, including former leadership candidate Yvette Cooper, as well as Stephen Twigg (Liverpool West Derby) and Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood).

Five other Oxbridge colleges are known to have six current MPs among their alumni.

They are Pembroke college in Cambridge, and Lady Margaret Hall, Magdalen, St Edmund Hall and St John’s in Oxford.

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All of the MPs known to have graduated from Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford (Philip Hollobone, Dominic Raab, Harriet Baldwin, Michael Gove, Helen Whatley and George Hollingbery) are Conservatives.

So too are those from Magdalen: Nick Boles, John Redwood, Dominic Grieve, Alex Chalk, Jeremy Hunt and the Chancellor, George Osborne.

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Among Conservative MPs, 68 are known to have gone to Oxford, 33 to Cambridge and 183 to other universities.

That means 55% of Tory MPs got their undergraduate degree from Oxbridge.

Among Labour MPs, 28 are known to have gone to Oxford, 21 to Cambridge and 152 to other universities.

That means 32% of Labour MPs got their undergraduate degree from Oxbridge.

Where did MPs get their first degrees?

All MPs

Oxford - 96

Cambridge - 56

Durham - 17

LSE - 17

Edinburgh - 15

Hull - 14

Glasgow - 13

Manchester - 13

Aberystwyth - 11

Birmingham - 11

UCL - 11

Exeter - 9

Nottingham - 9

Bristol - 8

Leeds - 8

Sheffield - 8

York - 8

St Andrews - 7

Warwick - 7

Aberdeen - 6

Essex - 6

KCL - 6

Newcastle - 6

Reading - 6

Salford - 6

Stirling - 6

Sussex - 6

Brunel - 5

Liverpool - 5

London - 5

Queen's Belfast - 5

Southampton - 5

Strathclyde - 5

Swansea - 5

Tory MPs only

Tory MPs' undergraduate degrees

Oxford - 68

Cambridge - 33

Durham - 13

LSE - 10

Birmingham - 7

Bristol - 7

UCL - 7

Exeter - 6

Reading - 6

Aberystwyth - 5

Hull - 5

Manchester - 5

Nottingham - 5

Labour MPs only

Labour MPs' undergraduate degrees