'He couldn't really not get that degree, could he. When I got my degree in 1972 I had no family influences to bring into play..." "He couldn't really not get that degree, could he, without a bit of pressure from Dad and whoever was prime minister at the time." Apologies'.
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Bit of a slow burn, but honestly can't follow the point you were making here, Steve. He had to get the appropriate entrance A-level grades, like anyone else; sit the same papers for his degree as all the other students in his faculty. What had his father & the PM to do with his succeeding in these things, just as, as you say, did you & I without any paternal or prime-ministerial influences to bring to bear? Do you imagine Prince Philip & whoever it was sitting in the exam hall leaning over his shoulder & whispering the answers in his ear*? Or what? Genuinely no conception of what you are on about...

~M~

*The size of which is quite irrelevant BTW; your fatuous, facetiously iterated "Big Ears" is a pathetic infantile silliness way beneath you of which you should really be ashamed. Oh for such times as when such impertinences would have resulted in your own, doubtlessly small but perfectly formed, aural appendages being painfully removed...