Readers respond to John Harris’s article on the damage one elite public school has inflicted on the country
What Boris Johnson has successfully disproved is the claim that the traditional British elites, through upbringing, heritage etc, are uniquely qualified to govern the country (Britain’s overgrown Eton schoolboys have turned the country into their playground, 2 May).
What Eton seems to have taught its students is the desire to govern, but not the knowledge of how to. A sense of entitlement is not a sufficient qualification for leadership. Take the example of the Eton alumnus Anthony Eden, who was responsible for the Suez crisis, one of Britain’s greatest diplomatic disasters.
