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Reality TV toff is Cam's new adviser

20-Aug-2008
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David Cameron's latest adviser lorded it over servants with "terrible relish" as a pampered aristocrat in a TV reality show, it was revealed yesterday. Jonty Olliff-Cooper also taught at the Tory leader's elite old school Eton before being hired to draw up party policy. His appointment was revealed on the day senior Tory George Osborne claimed he wanted to make Britain fairer by giving poor youngsters a chance at top jobs. Advertisement - article continues below » But Labour MP Brian Donohoe said: "You couldn't make it up. It just goes to show they are still living in the past where they run things as an exclusive little club." Mr Olliff-Cooper's family starred in The Edwardian Country House at Manderston House in Berwickshire in 2002 - and later admitted they had trouble adjusting to life without the servants. Critics said... [read full story]                    

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