You can't understand breket or the last 20 years in british poltits without understanding the autocracy. I think because boris johnson incalulates some of the oxford qualities that i've been thinking about so perfectly, is almost a parody version of them. Because it's also a book beyond exit, which is only a very small part of the book. Its a book about what these people learn along the way at school and at university. And then in our generation, in terms of why you did it and why now tere a cathotic component to it.
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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