Simon Kuper.
SIMON KUPER: OXFORD TORIES BIOGRAPHY
CHUMS: HOW A TINY CASTE OF OXFORD TORIES TOOK OVER THE UK (2022)
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Simon Kuper gives a rip-roaring and daming account of how a small group of Oxford graduates took over the Conservative Party and the country. They included Jacob Rees-Moff, Dominic Cmmings, Theresa May, George Osborne, David Cameron, Michael Gove, and above all Boris Johnson. He argues that when they moved from the world of student debates to parliament they brought their student politics with them.
Matthew Parris described the book as ‘'A searing onslaught on the smirking Oxford insinuation that politics is all just a game. It isn't. It matters'. Writing in the Sunday Times, Matthew Syed described the book as ‘Equisite and depressing in equal measures’.
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Simon Kuper (born 1969) is a British journalist and author who lives in France and also has French nationality. He was born in Uganda of South African born parents; he moved as a child tothe Netherlands, where his father held a post as a professor of anthropology. Simon Kuper was educated at Oxford and Harvard Universities, and joined the Financial Times in 1994. His writing for the Financial times spans current affairs, travel, history and politics. He is married to the American writer Pamela Druckerman.
