House of Common
...essional or managerial and technical who had special experience and skill. The House of common was made up entirely of people from the middle and upper classes. MPs educational experiences are also not typical of the electorate as a whole. In 2001, 67 percent of newly elected Labour MPs had a university education. Generally, MPs are middle aged; there are a very small amount young person is MPs, many young people feel very remote from the typical MP who is a white man in his late 40s. So, another problem is ethnic minorities, who make up 5 per cent of the UK’s population like Black and Asian, but they are seriously under-represented, there were just 12 MPs in 2001. There are low number of woman MPs, in 2001 just 118 women MPs in House of Com...