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It is extraordinary that of the 15 postwar Prime Ministers, 11 went to Oxford. The other four didn’t go to university at all (Winston Churchill, James Callaghan and John Major) or went to Edinburgh (Gordon Brown).
A gripping book would explain this phenomenon. Chums, by Oxford graduate and FT columnist Simon Kuper, is not that book.
Instead, it’s a sloppily argued, unconvincing polemic about how Oxford shapes modern Britain through its prominent politician graduates.
They include Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David
