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Hello and welcome to Wimber Bores, where I Katie Balls speak to today's trailblazers.

My guest today grew up in Essex to quite the political family.

Three of her grandparents were in the House of Lords.

Her career in Westminster began in the 1970s and in 2005 she co-founded Women to Win

with the future Prime Minister Theresa May, aimed at encouraging more women to get

into politics and stand as conservative candidates. The results today are clear to see. She has made

a life peer in 2011 for services to charity and politics. My guest today is Anne Jenkins.

And thank you very much for joining me today for the podcast.

Pleasure.

We tend to start at the beginning when it comes to whether you would say your childhood was a happy one.

I would.

It was a traditional sort of 1950s, 60s childhood, big garden, lots of running around outside, biking, swimming in lakes,

holidays by the sea in Wales, and spending a lot of time with family and friends who had ponies, that sort of thing, old-fashioned. And I mentioned in the introduction that you come from a very political family.

So I think three of your grandparents in the House of Lords, I believe two of them also

in the Commons.

How did that manifest itself growing up?

Were you very aware of their roles from an early age?

I was aware that they were sort of important people, if you like.

Both my mother's parents were MPs. My grandmother was the 33rd ever woman MP and her father as a liberal MP introduced the first women suffrage bill in 1907. In fact, I sometimes think those fantasy dinner parties would be quite interesting. I knew obviously my

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