David Cameron has more Etonians around him than any leader since Macmillan. Can he represent Britain from such a narrow base?

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David Cameron has more Etonians around him than any leader since Macmillan. Can he represent Britain from such a narrow base? Robert Winnett and Holly Watt report

At the Audi dealership off Sloane Square in Chelsea in west London, well-heeled customers compete to secure the latest top-of-the-range models. A prime site dealership, it attracts such an exclusive clientele that not long ago the salesmen started an informal competition.

They set out to find the customer with the “upper-class name of the year”. The business cards of contenders were pinned on a board and for a while Algernon Percy, scion of one of Britain’s blue-blooded families, looked a cert for the title. In the end, according to a weblog posted by one of the salesmen, the award was snatched by one “Toppo Todhunter” — an investment banker said to come from “racing stock” near Newbury in Berkshire.

Unknown to the salesmen, Todhunter belongs to an even more exclusive background: he is a member of the Old Etonian clique clustered around David Cameron, the Conservative party leader.

Guilty secrets for most politicians tend to be a mistress, a dodgy financial link or, if you are a Liberal Democrat, insanity brought on by hair loss. But for Cameron it is Toppo, his old school classmate, best man and a figure who embodies just about everything that the Tory leader is keen to hide about himself

via timesonline.co.uk

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David Cameron has more Etonians around him than any leader since Macmillan. Can he represent Britain from such a narrow base?

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