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Why do Eton students often get into power?
Amika George, the #FreePeriods campaigner and student activist studying at Cambridge, says that more students from Eton are accepted into Oxbridge than black men. She tells Jenni Murray at BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour that this creates a self-perpetuating cycle that propels already privileged people into the establishment.
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