Voters Prefer Oxford - Why Labour Should Keep Its Leader

If some reports are to be believed, then there is discontent with Ted Miliband's leadership of the Labour party.

However, there is one thing that Ted has in his favour - he is a graduate of the world's greatest university, Oxford University. And not just any old college, but its greatest college - Corpus Christi, where he was in the year above me.

If we look at the general elections of the past 60 years, then we see an interesting pattern:

Election	Conservative		Labour		Winner
	Leader	University	Leader	University
May 1955	Anthony Eden	Oxford	Clement Attlee	None	Conservative
October 1959	Harold Macmillan	Oxford	Hugh Gaitskell	Oxford	Conservative
October 1964	Alec Douglas-Home	Oxford	Harold Wilson	Oxford	Labour
March 1966	Edward Heath	Oxford			Labour
June 1970					Conservative
February 1974					Labour
October 1974					Labour
May 1979	Margaret Thatcher	Oxford	James Callaghan	None	Conservative
June 1983			Michael Foot	Oxford	Conservative
June 1987			Neil Kinnock	University College of South Wales & Monmouthshire	Conservative
April 1992	John Major	None			Conservative
May 1997			Tony Blair	Oxford	Labour
June 2001	William Hague	Oxford			Labour
May 2005	Michael Howard	Fenland Polytechnic			Labour
May 2010	David Cameron	Oxford	Gordon Brown	Edinburgh	Conservative

As is clear, every time the people have a choice between an Oxford or non-Oxford Prime Minister, they choose the Oxford one.