The word casque was very important, and it took me a long time to arrive at. I don't believe that there's an economic as that pursued brexet for its own particular economic interests. So i felt it evoked pretty much what i wanted to talk about, and that ruling cast. If youre cameron at birth, if you're johnson,. may be at the age of 11, although his father also went to boarding school. And it's very hard to enter this cast. Later in life, you can become a senior tory politician without being a cast member - but you'll never belong to that cast. That's why it's a good workthat you
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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