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Graphic Truth: The Schools That Rule Britannia

Graphic Truth: The Schools That Rule Britannia
By Kevin Allison,
Kevin Allison

Kevin Allison is a Senior Editor for Signal. Based in Washington DC, he looks at how technology is reshaping global affairs. Kevin is also a Director in the Geo-Technology practice at Eurasia Group. Kevin holds degrees from the University of Missouri and from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He was also a Fulbright Scholar in Vienna, Austria and a 2015 Miller Journalism Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. Prior to GZERO Media and Eurasia Group, Kevin was a journalist at Reuters and the Financial Times. He has lived in eight US states and has been an expat four times.

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July 25, 2019

Boris Johnson is the latest in a long line of UK prime ministers who attended Eton College, an elite boarding school near London. Since the 1720s, just three schools – Eton, Harrow School, and Westminster School – have produced a majority of the country's leaders. Here's a snapshot of where other prime ministers spent their formative years.

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