Boris Johnson… as Americans would say… All hat and no cattle. He could probably say “Garden Bridge” in Latin.
The independent school sector are known to prepare their kids with one objective… Like the tommies in WW1 going over the top, they come at Oxbridge in waves. The class system is alive and well…
In the US it seems outstanding academic achievement is not sufficient for the Ivy league at least , you have to have a ‘hook’ probably 2 to stand a chance.