Simon Kuper (17:00)

Power. Privilege. Parties. It's a very small world at the top.

Chums is a damning look at the Oxford University clique-turned-Commons majority that will blow the doors of Westminster wide open and change the way you look at our democracy forever. They aren't just colleagues - they are peers, rivals, friends. They debated each other in tutorials, ran against each other in student elections, and attended the same balls and black-tie dinners.

Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel Hannan, Jacob Rees-Mogg: Whitehall is swarming with old Oxonians. And, when they walked out of the world of student debates onto the national stage, they brought their university politics with them, shaping twenty-first century Britain. Brexit can be traced back to the debating chambers of the Oxford Union in the 1980s.

Simon Kuper is a Financial Times columnist and Oxford graduate.

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