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 2023 Power. 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.
