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Why would a US vice-president meet up with a Romford-born reality TV star known for his catch phrases and perennial tan? Zoë Beaty takes a closer look at why it works for both of them...

H

e made a name for himself peddling pillows with all the gusto of a modern-day Del Boy: the “absolute guv’nor” of “graft” who belts out “Bosh!” like a battle cry and has somehow made the way he pours gravy a key element of his persona. This is Thomas, or Tom Skinner, or “The Original Bosh” as he calls himself, a Very British Businessman who found fame on The Apprentice – and just a few years later, improbably (or not, as it may be) finds himself sharing beers with the vice-president of the United States, and at the centre of a burgeoning class culture war.