Paper Monitor
11:53 UK time, Wednesday, 6 April 2011
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
A trio of . They could be triplets, with their luxury brunette locks and pinchably round cheeks.
Might they be a trio of happy A-level students? Doubt it. They're not:
- jumping
- in vest tops
- or female
Nor is it exam results day for some months yet. So who are these photogenic youngsters? Why, David Cameron in his intern days, Nick Clegg in his intern days, and George Osborne in his intern days.
The paper has dug out these photos to illustrate its article on the deputy prime minister's attempts to stop wealthy families securing plum intern posts for their children.
Mr Clegg undermined his own policy when he admitted that his father had pulled strings to get him a gap-year post with a Finnish bank, and it also emerged that he had hired unpaid interns in his parliamentary office.
Nor was he the only one to benefit, the paper notes. Mr Osborne joined politics with help from a friend. Labour leader Ed Miliband "got his break in politics by doing work experience with Tony Benn".
And a young Mr Cameron first worked for his MP godfather, then attended an interview at the Conservative research department.
A phone call is understood to have been received from a mystery caller from Buckingham Palace, who told them they were about to meet a "truly remarkable young man".
This tale, previously recounted by Mr Cameron's biographers, casts no light on who made that call. Two family friends on the Palace payroll at the time deny it was them.
The Daily Mirror has also been into the picture archives and dug out a snap of Mr Clegg "on a tennis court at his posh private school", and, for good measure, has .
The Daily Telegraph also tackles social mobility Westminster-style in its .
By 'eck I've come from nothing, I went to Sandhurst...
Sandhurst?! Ee, you were luck! My father was a stockbroker...
I used to dream of having a stockbroker father! Mine was a baronet...
Luxury! I was left alone at Westminster School...
You try and tell that to the young people of today... (Speaking of which, the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ has a class test to determine your own social mobility.)
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