Education
He was educated at Leighton Park School in Reading, Berkshire, and at St John's College at the University of Cambridge where he was President of the Cambridge Union and the Cambridge University Liberal Club. His three politically active brothers, Dingle, John and Michael, were all educated at Oxford University and they all became Presidents of the Oxford Union.
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