The BBC may be determined barely to mention the matter despite the fact that the figure involved is five times that in the Peter Hain case. But it is almost reassuring to see that George Osborne is still such a noov, baronetcy or no baronetcy.
Not like the Beeb’s newly beloved Cameron, of course. Osborne’s family background in trade very nearly kept him out of the Bullingdon Club, into which, a few years before, Cameron had sailed effortlessly, as is his wont.
The Buller currently has only four members at Oxford, socially a more select place than it was in those halcyon post-Butler, pre-Blair days. Yet even in today’s changed circumstances, there are only four undergraduates quite as posh as David Cameron, easily the grandest frontline British politician since the Thirties.
No wonder that Auntie loves him so much. She has to make do with a Charter from the head of some clan of immigrant parvenus. But she is damn well going to get one of her own into Downing Street as compensation for that indignity.
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