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It is the back at 10 o'clock on Wednesday

the 9th of October. I am Phil Sim, a journalist based at Holyrood. And I am joined today for another

one of our interview episodes by the Deputy Scottish Liberal Democrat leader, Wendy Chamberlain MP.

Hi, Wendy. Hi, Phil. Good to be here. Wendy, I kind of wanted to do a wee bit of an intro to

you as well as to sort of the politics we're going to talk about because you're one of these

relatively rare MPs, I think, who has a bit of hinterland. You know, you had a real job before you

went into politics. It was a real person. In fact, you had, so was it 12 years in the police?

Yes, that's right, in Luternan Borders.

We worked on a Ministry of Defence Base.

Yes, I did in military resettlement, helping service levers into employment.

You worked in the alcoholic drinks industry for a bit?

Yes, I was a capability manager for Diageo, which involved visiting lots of distilleries and packaging plants.

And you are a director of the Shinti Association? Yes, the Kaman Act. I was the first

female director of the Kamanak Association from 2017s. I loved their really refreshing approach to me

when they asked me to join the board, which was, we need a woman.

Well, who doesn't?

I mean, so, I mean, from that sort of that LinkedIn rundown that we've just done, I mean,

where does MP actually rank in terms of being, you know, is it in your top five most interesting job you've had?

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