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When you say "beliefs", what do you mean?
I'm not discounting his advantages, but I'd guess Winchester probably had an entrance exam and minimum Common Entrance grades. It's not like he had a history of family attendance.
Likewise getting in to Oxford isn't easy. Yes the majority have been to private schools but that doesn't mean you get to go just because you went to private school.
Again you don't get either a Fulbright scholarship or into Stanford easily.
Sure once you've built up a CV like that it's a lot easier to get a job at GS. But getting to that point requires consistent academic excellence from a young age and a lot of hard work and focus.
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Sunak is clearly a bright and very capable person. He wouldn't have had the working career he had if he wasn't.
propping the tories up with beliefs like that