Question for Theresa May: what's so great about Great and Good?

Theresa May needs to look outside the ‘magic circle’ to appoint a suitable chair for child abuse inquiry

Columnist Robert Chesshyre

When, as a teenager, I was first politically aware, the then government – that of the great showman, Harold Macmillan - was dominated by Old Etonians.

Shortly before the last election I was invited to join neighbours to meet the Conservative candidate for Richmond, Zac Goldsmith, himself an OE. I asked him why the quota of Etonians at the top of the Tory party was roughly as it had been in those far-off Supermac days.

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Robert Chesshyre writes regularly on police culture and is a former US correspondent of The Observer. His books include ‘The Force: Inside the Police’ and 'When the Iron Lady Ruled Britain''.