Oxford is the key institution in this pipe line youve refer to as eaton to top of british public life. Oxford brings all these different groupings together, and the oxford union training and network is k. So if if there had been no oxford, johnson would never have met gove. A reas would never have meeting henan. It's the combo that is kind of world beating. And when these people get to oxford, they meet each other. They meet kind of t most ambitious politicos, especially from other schools.
Across Britain, it’s no secret that the people who make up the country's elected government have gone through the same familiar educational pipeline. Eton, Oxford, Westminster. Born into families of privilege, it’s unsurprising that these men, and it is largely men, have risen to the top in a country obsessed with social class. But while it’s clear how they got there, we should ask how does this affect the way that they run the country today? To help answer these questions and understand the tiny world of the uber elite, Simon Kuper, FT columnist and author of Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK, joins us on the podcast. Our host for this episode is Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall Editor for The Sunday Times.
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