Author says he doesn't spend a lot of time on the labor party because it became unfashionable. On Tony blair: "He was quite a transformative premier, whom i classed with other oxford premiers like atley and thatcher in that regard" But if you look at the irat wal, it's sold by Blair through his wonderful rhetoric,. He had wonderful presentational skill but still could see more than he was.
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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