Now with a new chapter on the end of the chumocracy era - and Oxford's upcoming elite for 2050.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BEST BOOK
OF 2023Power. Privilege. Parties.It's a very small world at the top. 'Brilliant ... traces
Brexit back to the debating chambers of the Oxford Union in the 1980s' James O'Brien'A searing
onslaught on the smirking Oxford insinuation that politics is all just a game. It isn't. It
matters' Matthew Parris 'A sparkling firework of a book' Lynn Barber Spectator 'Exquisite and
depressing in equal measure' Matthew Syed Sunday Times Boris Johnson Michael Gove David
Cameron George Osborne Theresa May Dominic Cummings Daniel Hannan Jacob Rees-Mogg:
Whitehall is swarming with old Oxonians. They debated each other in tutorials ran against each
other in student elections and attended the same balls and black tie dinners. They aren't just
colleagues - they are peers rivals friends. And when they walked out of the world of student
debates onto the national stage they brought their university politics with them. Thirteen of
the seventeen postwar British prime ministers went to Oxford University. In Chums Simon Kuper
traces how the rarefied and privileged atmosphere of this narrowest of talent pools - and the
friendships and worldviews it created - shaped modern Britain. A damning look at the university
clique-turned-Commons majority that will blow the doors of Westminster wide open and change the
way you look at our democracy forever.
