Clinton emerges as Oxford favourite

Former US President Bill Clinton has emerged as a favourite among Oxford undergraduates to head the Oxford University as its Chancellor.The ...

Former US President Bill Clinton has emerged as a favourite among Oxford undergraduates to head the Oxford University as its Chancellor.

The former US President polled almost half — 48 per cent — of the votes in a poll to be published tomorrow in Cherwell, the university’s undergraduate newspaper.

Clinton, a former Rhodes scholar whose daughter Chelsea is a graduate student at Oxford, attracted almost three times the support of his nearest rival, Shirley Williams, who polled 16 per cent.

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Chris Patten, the former governor of Hong Kong, headed the rest of the field on 11 per cent, with Michael Heseltin, the former deputy prime minister, on six per cent. Undergraduates also nominated Boris Johnson MP, but received only four per cent votes.

But Cherwell’s survey, sent to 1,000 undergraduates via E-mail, is not quite the green light for a Clinton candidacy that it might first appear. Undergraduates are not eligible to vote, although they could help out with canvassing.

The chancellor’s post fell vacant following the death of Roy Jenkins recently.

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