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Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK

by Simon Kuper - £9.99  Profile Books Ltd (2023)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781788167390 | ISBN 10: 1788167392

Power. Privilege. Parties.
It's a very small world at the top.

 
'A searing onslaught on the smirking Oxford insinuation that politics is all just a game. It isn't. It matters'
Matthew Parris
 
Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel Hannan, Jacob Rees-Mogg: Whitehall is swarming with old Oxonians. They debated each other in tutorials, ran against each other in student elections, and attended the same balls and black tie dinners.
 
They aren't just colleagues - they are peers, rivals, friends. And, when they walked out of the world of student debates onto the national stage, they brought their university politics with them.
 
Eleven of the fifteen postwar British prime ministers went to Oxford. In Chums, Simon Kuper traces how the rarefied and privileged atmosphere of this narrowest of talent pools - and the friendships and worldviews it created - shaped modern Britain.
 
A damning look at the university clique-turned-Commons majority that will blow the doors of Westminster wide open and change the way you look at our democracy forever.

(Price & availability last checked: April 2023)

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