The Worldly Experience of the "actual" Cabinet

By popular demand, or more accurately, after a few comments in the previous post, here is the worldly experience of the actual Cabinet before being politicians (update: by that I mean before they got into politics properly, unless, as in some cases, thy've done nothing else).

Note: I have not included the gaps for people like Francis Maude who left Parliament and then came back.

• David Cameron - SpAd then Director of Corporate Affairs at Carlton Communications (7 years)
• Nick Clegg - Foreign Correspondent, lobbyist
  
• William Hague - Management consultant McKinsey & Company
• George Osborne - CCHQ Wonk/SpAd
• Danny Alexander - Press officer (politics) and then Head of Communications for the Cairngorms National Park.
  
• Ken Clarke - Barrister QC
• Theresa May - Bank of England, financial consultant
• Liam Fox - GP, Civilian Army Medical Officer and Divisional Surgeon with St John Ambulance
• Vince Cable - Economics lecturer, Chief Economist, Royal Dutch Shell
• Iain Duncan-Smith - British Army Officer, Scots Guard
• Chris Huhne - Economic journalist, City entrepreneur, MD of Fitch IBCA
• Andrew Lansley - Civil Servant
• Michael Gove - Journalist
• Eric Pickles - Apparently a career politico.
  
• Philip Hammond - Director of Speywood Medical Limited, Castlemead Ltd, Castelmead Home. Consulltant World Bank.
• Caroline Spelman - National Union Farmers, lobbyist
• Andrew Mitchell - UN Peacekeeper, British Army Royal Tank Regiment, Investment Bank Lazard, Senior Strategy Advisor for Accenture
• Jeremy Hunt - English language teacher in Japan, IT PR company, Profile PR
• Owen Paterson - Sales Director and Managing Director of British Leather Company, Director of Parsons and Sons (leather company)
• Michael Moore - Accountant
• Cheryl Gillan - Marketing consultant, Ernst & Young, marketing director with Kidsons Impey
• Baroness Warsi - Lawyer
• Lord Strathclyde - Hereditary Peer
• George Young - Economic adviser to Post Office Corporation
• Francis Maude - Criminal lawyer
• Dominic Grieve QC - Barrister
• Patrick McLoughlin - farmer, coal miner

Quite a difference there I'd say. It would be difficult to call them "a bunch of weirdos who’ve never had a proper job in their lives" anyway - well maybe not the weirdo bit!

Source: Wikipedia