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


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Author: Simon Kuper

Format: Hardback 240 pages

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

Imprint: Profile Books Ltd

ISBN: 9781788167383

Published: 28 Apr 2022

 

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 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 'A sparkling firework of a book' Lynn Barber, Spectator' Exquisite and depressing in equal measure' Matthew Syed, Sunday Times, 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 post war 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.

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