Did he acquire his 'entitlement' to hold forth by way of having a notable father, Lord Maurice Peston?
'Peston is from a Jewish family and is the son of the late Lord Peston, an economist and Labour life peer, and Helen Conroy. As the son of a life baron, he is entitled to the courtesy title ‘The Honourable’, but does not use it. Peston attended Highgate Wood Secondary School, in Crouch End, North London, graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a 2:2 degree in PPE and then studied at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.'