For as long as an Oxbridge degree is the golden ticket to a job in our top professions, its opaque admissions process will determine who the next generation of cabinet ministers, high court judges and newspaper editors will be.
It is right and proper that our top universities are elite. But for too long they have been allowed to be elitist as well, drawing up the ladder to success underneath them and reinforcing centuries of entrenched privilege.
• David Lammy is Labour MP for Tottenham and the former minister for higher education
Kiwanuka, now a musician known as Love Ssega, whose career began with the group Clean Bandit before going solo, only applied to i, a black British Cambridge student who featured in a BBC documentary.