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To subscribe today, go to spectator.com.ukuk, forward slash unlimited. Hello and welcome to Women of Balls,

where I Cated Balls talk to today's trailblazers. My guest today is born in South London,

but Northumberland is her adopted home,

where she now lives and serves as the local MP. A headstrong child, her political awakening

can be traced back to a young age and the influence of Thatcher. After graduating,

she became a chartered accountant at PWC, but politics was in her sights. She won the

Conservative seat for Berwick von Tweed in the 2015 election,

a historic Liberal Democrats hold. At first she was a thorn on the government side as a member of the

European Research Group, but under Boris Johnson, she has been rapidly promoted and developed a reputation

as one of his most trusted colleagues. She is known as a determined cabinet minister

who can take big outward facing briefs such as her current one in charge of Britain's

post-Brexit trade strategy. She says, when you've got a character like mine, when stuff

that's wrong is profoundly irritating and doing something about it is how I want to fix things,

this is the job. Amory, thank you for coming on this

podcast today. We had it penciled in, I think about a year or so ago, but then you rudely were

promoted and the green light we had for you to speak to us had to be put on hold as you got

to grips with your new brief. I think that's a nice way of putting it. I haven't been to the

country much, but it's lovely to be here. Now, on this podcast, we always begin by saying,

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