An outsider takes a look at the Oxford ‘chums’ who run Britain
A new book captures Boris Johnson and other future Conservative politicians when they were ambitious and misbehaving undergrads, planning their rise to power.
Soon after Simon Kuper began his first year of studies at Oxford University in 1988, he noticed an undergraduate who was always carrying an umbrella, and wearing a dark double-breasted suit and old-school spectacles.
“He looked like a Victorian vicar,” Kuper recalls, drinking tea at a restaurant in the London neighbourhood of Islington.
