Claim: You are twice as likely to get into university if you are poor and English as if you are poor and Scottish.
Fact-check: Are poor Scots half as likely to get into university as poor English pupils? - Full Fact
Verdict: this is probably a reasonable claim, though the comparison is a bit tricky. it also doesn't account for the substantial amount of higher education provided by further education colleges in scotland.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Charlotte Browning
Date published: 2017-03-16T00:00:00