There's so much shame around oxford and eton and billingdon i don't meank that you would necessarily may me in certain corners of the conservative world. Do we need to abolish eaton and or undergraduate education at oxvord oris? Our country sort of, has it corrected this this thing by itself. I think the strongest possible corrective against rule by eaton and oxfeto borras johnson, because he exemplified so visibly so many of the faults. It's too modern and n edge a country to be run by these people stuck in a kind of hereditary past.
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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