Chakrabarti faces claims of hypocrisy over son's £18,000 college

The Shadow Attorney General faced claims of "hypocrisy" after calling for "grammar schools" for every child despite sending her son to a private school.  Speaking on BBC

Question Time, Baroness Chakrabarti said: "I went to comprehensive school and I’m now the shadow Attorney General and I’m on Question Time. "It was one of the best life chances I

ever had. What we want of course as parents is the best for our particular children but what we need to have as a country and as citizens is the best for everybody’s children too. "How

about having grammar schools for all children? Otherwise known as comprehensive schools." But her passionate call for more Government funding for comprehensive funding was rejected by

Twitter users who pointed out that in 2016 the Baroness enrolled her son in £18,000 a year Dulwich College in South-East London. Journalist Lee Harpin wrote: "So Shami Chakrabarti is on

#questiontime singing the praises of comprehensive schooling for all - while sending her own child to £18000 a year Dulwich College." Labour voter and actress Frances Barber also

pointed out the inconsistency of the peer's statement, saying: "Shami Chakrabarti says she went to a comprehensive and is now in ermine and on Question Time. So why does she send

her kid to a private school?" Furious viewer Jon Primett wrote: "Shami Chakrabarti epitomises the "do as we say, not as we do" champagne socialist that are rife within

#Labour. "What she failed to mention was that she sent her school to educationally selective, £18k/year Dulwich College. Just another stinking leftie hypocrite." Firefighter and

trade unionist Paul Embery also did not digest well the comments, taking to Twitter: "Baroness Chakrabarti condemning selective education and waxing lyrical about comprehensives on

Question Time last night. "She sent her own son to the selective £18,000-a-year Dulwich – a top private school. This hypocrisy makes me physically sick." Businesswoman Julie

Williams also appeared furious: "#education #university according to Labour Shami Chakrabarti "students should be paid to go to university" on #otherpeoplemoney

but...criticises selective schools for many, whilst defending sending son to £18,000 private school. Example of "do as I say not as I do." Secondary school student David Ritchie

added: "#Labour's hypocrisy is rampant. Chakrabarti applauds comprehensives, yet sends her son to the academically selective @DulwichCollege. #labourhypocrisy.' Baroness

Chakrabarti defended her decision to send her son to the grammar school in 2016, saying she was "trying to do best not just for my own family." She said: "I have real concerns

about grammar schools. In my lifetime, I have met too many people, including incredibly bright, successful people, who carry that scar of failing the 11-plus, and that segregation in

schooling. "I live a charmed and privileged life, much more now than I ever did when I was a child, but people on the left have often had charmed and privileged lives. "I live in a

nice big house, and eat nice food, and my neighbours are homeless, and go to food banks. Does that make me a hypocrite, or does it make me someone who is trying to do best, not just for my

own family, but for other people's families too? "And this thing about selection - if you've got money you will always be all right. If you don't have money in this

country you are increasingly not all right, and that is why I have joined the Labour Party."