Lucy Powell, who was made Andy Burnham‘s Education Secretary in July, famously dropped out of Oxford, claiming it was too elitist.
Born in Didsbury, the south Manchester suburb where she still lives, she attended Beaver Road primary and Parrs Wood High School.
The latter is the alma mater of fellow Cabinet minister Lisa Nandy and was recently dubbed ‘the new Eton’ by the Manchester Evening News.
In yesterday’s speech, Ms Powell, 52, revealed she is from a family of ‘school leaders’, and that being among academy heads felt like a ‘family gathering’.
Her mother was a headteacher who led a multi-academy trust, while a
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