Women “frozen out” of Cameron’s “Old Etonian clique” says top civil servant

Recently retired Home Office Permenant Secretary Dame Helen Ghosh has hit out at Cameron and his “clique” in a talk to students at Cambridge. She is reported to have said:

“If you look at the current government, not necessarily back to the Bullingdon Club days, but Cameron, it is true, it is well known, has a clique, a network of friends — the friends he made at school, friends he made at university.

“That kind of clique network was reinforced in Cameron’s case by the people who worked for him in opposition, the people who supported him in his leadership bid.”

She also said “It is actually quite difficult for a woman to get in as part of an Old Etonian clique.”

Read the full story over at the Evening Standard.