Now with a new chapter on the end of the chumocracy era - and the upcoming Oxford elite for 2050.

The Book that Stood Out in the SUNDAY TIMES and TIMES BESTSELLERS of 2022

BEST BOOK of the TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT in 2023

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

‘Exquisite ... traces Brexit back to the debating halls of Oxford in the 1980s’ - James O'Brien

‘A blistering attack on Oxford's sneering presumption that politics is just a game. It's not. It matters’ - Matthew Parris

‘A brilliant firework of a book’ - Lynn Barber, Spectator

‘Excellent and depressing at the same time’ - Matthew Syed, Sunday Times

Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel Hannan, Jacob Rees-Mogg: Whitehall is replete with former Oxonians. They debated each other in classes, competed in student elections, and attended the same balls and public receptions.

They are not just colleagues - they are peers, rivals, friends. And when they stepped out from the world of student boards to the national stage, they brought university politics with them.

Thirteen of the seventeen post-war British Prime Ministers were educated at Oxford. In ‘Chums’, Simon Kuper dissects how the rarefied and privileged atmosphere of this tight-knit talent pool - and the friendships and worldviews it fostered - shaped modern Britain.

A damning look at the political clique turned Westminster majority, that will open the doors of Westminster and change how you see our democracy forever.

Pages: 256, Year of Publication: 0330, Dimensions: 12.8x12.8cm