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I'm on holiday this week and if you don't stop talking about Brexit I might not come back.

I said this week's episode is a recording of an interview I did with Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Conservative

leader at the incredible Signet Library in Edinburgh. It was a special Times Plus event for Time subscribers

where we sat down to discuss her new book, yes she can. Of course we discussed Brexit and

Boris Johnson and her ambitions or not to be Prime Minister,

but what was also really nice is being able to sit down with a politician and discuss some things other

than politics. We talked about her upbringing, her background, her

frank admission about her own mental health problems in the past, and how she is

preparing for imminent motherhood. But I began by asking her why she decided to write the book in the first

place and why she was so keen to stress that it's not a memoir.

After the Brexit referendum debate in Wembley last two years ago now, I got lots of nice letters from people that didn't live in Scotland who were

unaware that I'd already led the Tory party in Scotland for five years and thought I

was this new face on the political scene when I actually was a bit of an old-timer and

one of them came from a publishing company that said

you've got quite interesting things to say if you ever thought of writing things outside

of politics why don't you come down and have a chat and I thought well you know

I've got a fine degree in English literature from Edinburgh University that I've never used in my entire life.

Do you know what? How hard can writing a book be? Let's go and go and find out and ask.

Turns out really hard. Really out really hard, really hard. But I went down and they were asking me,

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