Learning how the States work was something that Roy Bisson from the Workers Educational Association (WEA) also said was important and is something the WEA teach on a course designed to brief potential politicians "on what happens in the States and how they run their finances".

BBC: How to get elected to the States of Guernsey

One person on our list, Sir Richard Knowles, the leader of Birmingham City Council, worked his way up from village schools in Kent via the Workers' Educational Association and technical school.

ECONOMIST: From the archive