It was but seven summers ago when the government’s Social Mobility Commission said that if you wanted to be an investment banker a brown shoe was as positive for your career prospects as having a neck tattoo. That view seems prehistoric now.
But times change, people change, the world changes. No more so than in Downing Street. Or rather, when the occupant of Downing Street burdened himself on the British Border Force on Monday morning. His shoes were brown, they were big, and they were boots made by Timberland, the brand favoured by the late rapper TUPAC.
