Toby Young took on David Lammy over Oxford diversity and the Labour MP had the perfect response

Oonagh Keating. Updated May 24th, 2018

Labour MP David Lammy has been busy taking Oxford University to task about its lack of diversity with tweets like this.

630 Black British students get 3 A's and yet 1 in 4 Oxford colleges did not have a single Black British student in the entire cohort in at least one of the last three years. Not one Black British student offered a place for Computer Science or Psychology. Go and find the talent. https://t.co/dbJBnyXnY1

— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) May 23, 2018

And this.

Oxbridge gets £700 million a year from the taxpayer and the Oxbridge admissions system decides who gets to be the next Cabinet Ministers, newspaper editors, senior civil servants, FTSE CEOs etc. So it does matter to my constituents and to every person in this country, actually. https://t.co/C0tJJN7vTQ

— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) May 23, 2018

Enter Toby Young who was keen to share his take on the issue.

I blogged about David Lammy’s previous attack on Oxford for admitting too few black British students. @FraserNelson is right — issue isn’t Oxford’s bias, it’s that too few black British students are getting 3 As at A level. Solution is to improve schools https://t.co/2oBu8442bs

— Toby Young (@toadmeister) May 23, 2018

And Lammy responded in devastating style.

Toby tell us again about that time you got into Oxford because your Dad (a Baron) rang up the College to ask them to let you in because you didn't get the grades? And then come back to talk to me about institutional bias and why white students twice as likely to get in as black. https://t.co/1iVhwjBad3

— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) May 23, 2018

That’s gotta hurt.

“Hello, yes, is this the burn ward? Yes it’s @toadmeister calling again. Yeah it’s about the dad-Oxford thing again”

— John Jones (@John_J_Jones) May 24, 2018

Here’s Young, tweeting from his hospital bed.

Finally, for those tempted to reply to this thread by pointing out the circumstances in which I got into Oxford (I was sent an acceptance letter by mistake, my dad knew the admissions tutor at college I applied to, etc), please click on this link first https://t.co/E2AEwAk1jA

— Toby Young (@toadmeister) May 23, 2018

Do you ever feel guilty you stole someone elses place?

— Paul Richards ️ (@Paulr04) May 23, 2018

My college created an additional place on the PPE course for my year group when it discovered it had sent me an acceptance letter by mistake. So I didn’t deprive anyone else of a place.

— Toby Young (@toadmeister) May 23, 2018

The fact that you think this justifies your place sums you up

— Curtis Alleyne (@BCCurtis72) May 23, 2018

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