The lad may have been privileged to boot, but he was certainly a very clever Etonian. Having done excellently in his O-level exams, he secured top grades for his three A-level papers and then passed the Oxford entrance exam with high enough marks to secure an exhibition scholarship for studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Brasenose College. And for all his upper-class university club memberships — including the infamous Bullingdon Club, known for its wealthy black-tie members, brash, drink sodden dinners and wanton destruction of crockery — the young man smoothly sailed through his PPE getting a first class
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