One of the most prestigious roles in higher education is that of chancellor of Oxford University. Nevertheless Roy Jenkins, a previous chancellor said of the role, ‘impotence assuaged by magnificent’. Such is the magnificence, that applications are flooding in. Old Oxford chaps, and it’s mainly chaps are falling over themselves, so get to the front of the queue. Men like Lord William Hague, Lord Peter Mandleson and Sir Dominic Grieve. One tap of a button - some of the 250,000 graduates are eligible to cast their vote. Although I’m not eligible as I went to The London School of Economics, I’m taking an interest in the event. I would say on balance caeteris paribus Lord Hague, will be the winner. He has the necessary gravitas, international experience as foreign secretary, a well regarded biographer, a certain elan and panache. We shall see by the end of the year.
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