Do you have to be related to David Cameron in some way now to get a top job?

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The new editor of the Evening Standard is his sister in law and the head of the new track and trace system was his mate from school. There is increasing corruption in this country. Why are we accepting this?

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8369217/amp/NHS-test-trace-tsar-Dido-Harding-board-Cheltenham-Festival.html

www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/12/emily-sheffield-succeeds-george-osborne-as-evening-standard-editor

I went to Cambridge, a great number of my friends gained employment by phoning their contacts.

This probably helped as well;

"Emily Sheffield won the Student Journalist of the Year award in 1995."

Diane Harding is one of Boris's friends.
If your a chum you can get money from the tories / tax payers. Nothing much changes.

There is increasing corruption in this country.

No there isn't, nepotism has been rife for literally decades, Blair, Brown, Corbyn, labour councils tory councils, large charities, arts industry, media the lot

There isn't an increase, people only pick it up when it's coming from a side they don't agree with.

If you want to start to dismantlement this you need to start local, you will be surprised with the amount of nepotism rife in all local councils and work upwards.

I'm not sure. Believe it or not I have a very distant and somewhat convoluted family link to Cameron. I've never met him but have encountered his sister a number of times and shes lovely.

I will apply for a top job drop the connection in to the interview and let you know!

I've just finished the 3rd Hilary Mantell/Thomas Cromwell book, and there's an amazing merry-go-round of jobs for the boys there. I'm increasingly realising things haven't changed that much. Though the risk of a gruesome death has declined.

Nepotism exists everywhere.
The NHS runs on it! It's always who you know and not what you know most of the time!

Nepotism exists everywhere.

We're all in favour of it in our family.

Helped me get a job opening envelopes all week for a Daily Mail competition when I left school.

So neither of the two names in the OP are actually related by blood to Cameron?

Its gone on for years. People dont care as long as they dont have to pay a bit more tax or see the poors enjoying themselves.

It is all about privilege isn't it? Try becoming one of the establishment when you haven't the right credentials ! Almost impossible.
It's how life is.

I once had the misfortune to meet his mother. She was one of the most stuck up, self entitled snobs I have ever met.

At Oxford with DC and BoJo - staggering the number of their mates in office/been in office/had influential positions - Andy Feldman for starters...