Show 357. Mims Davies
The Political Party
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🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Mims Davies
Prepare to be blown away.
Mims has had to deal with so many astonishing life events. Not only that, she's handled them with remarkable humour.
What made her a Conservative? Why didn't she think party membership was for people like her?
How do the Tories stave off the threat from Reform and assert their dominance as the party of the right?
Mims shares her incredible life story, with a bit of politics mixed in .
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| 0:29.5 | Teas and C's apply. Hello and welcome to the political party. |
| 0:45.8 | Today's guest is Mims Davies. |
| 0:47.4 | She's the Shadow Secretary of State for Wales. |
| 0:49.3 | But oh boy, this is about so much more than politics. |
| 0:52.6 | This is about the incredible things that happen in life, how you react to them, how they make |
| 0:58.9 | you who you are. |
| 1:00.2 | This is actually out of this world. |
| 1:01.8 | And what Mims has dealt with and with such really great humour, it is astonishing. |
| 1:14.0 | Her life has really taken many twists and turns. |
| 1:20.3 | So we do talk about politics and maybe about how these events have informed or maybe changed to politics. But my God, she has, her life, it's, I could have spr spoken to for hours and hours and hours and hours |
| 1:28.5 | i really think that you would be so immersed in this it's going to fly by um before i uh we get to |
| 1:36.7 | mims just to let you know that the next political party is taking place in sheffield on the 6th of |
| 1:41.5 | july at the crossed wires festivals at the sheffield playhouse at half five where my guest is King of the North, Andy Burnham. |
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