littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
There are a lot of lawyers, aren't there. 119 with law degrees in the 2015 parliament, so nearly 20 per cent.Really? I think it is quite remarkable. As is this:
'Of the 541 MPs with higher education degrees in the 2015-2017 Parliament, only 93 (17%) held degrees in STEM subjects; for comparison, 46% of UK students in 2019 graduated in STEM subjects. This lack of scientific experience among MPs is at odds with the increasing pertinence of scientific issues and techniques to political decision-making.'
MPs with both an educational and occupational background in STEM are the most likely to demonstrate engagement with STEM issues in Parliament
Joshua Myers and Hilde Coffé investigate the effect of having a STEM background on both the likelihood of MPs proposing a STEM Private Members’ Bill and the proportion of proposals an MP dedi…blogs.lse.ac.uk
I can't find the number of bankers. Must be a fair few.
Thatcher was famously both a scientist and a lawyer, of course. One of history's oddities is that she briefly worked in the lab of communist sympathiser Dorothy Hodgkin.