Rachel Wolf, a former education adviser at 10 Downing Street, said: ‘Journalists did not usually go to FE [further education] colleges, and neither do their children. Politicians – even Labour ones – are more and more likely to have gone through traditional, elite education routes; therefore their understanding and instinctive desire to protect FE is low.’ According to Wolf, Government ministers and civil servants are unlikely to notice if things go wrong ‘because the elite will not have friends who are experiencing disaster’.52
