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I guess it was a victim of really poor. I was the type of kid that had really good grades and was expected to either do law or medicine

because that's what you did if you had the grades I had.

I didn't want to be a doctor so that defaulted you towards studying the law.

And then when I got to university to study law, I realised very quickly it wasn't for me.

It just didn't wash. I wasn't able to absorb all of the case law

and repeat it ad hominin in the way I was supposed to. But the way that Aberdeen University

organised its courses at the time, if I wanted to change subject, I would have had to take a year

out and start again. Financially, that wasn't an option. My parents were not cool with the idea

of a gap here or

waste in any time so I just had to stick with it so I did get my law degree but it wasn't a good

experience from Edinburgh and Glasgow who were doing everything they get as far away from

their homes and so they were travelling to Aberdeen and I felt like I ran now obviously that

wasn't true.

Brodie, a gingercock or spaniel and he's in here so he doesn't bark. That's the plan at least.

And that, there was a real distraction, but that was quite...

Did you find that, I suppose, what you saw was the private squirt, weren't friendly or was it

more you just felt like there was such...

Very much so. I had a delightful childhood.

My parents were together until I was well into my teenage years.

So I had a sort of semi-rural, if you can call it that upbringing in Elgin,

a town that Fraser Nelson will know well because he was just along the road in Forest.

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