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Hello and welcome to Women with Balls, where I, Katie Balls, speak to today's trailblazers.

And today we're making some Women with Ball's history because we're having a previous guest back on the podcast.

Now, when I spoke to her last year, this guest was serving as chief secretary to the Treasury.

Fast forward a year and Liz Trust is now in a Boris Johnson government as international trade

secretary and this month she added the women in equality's brief to her work.

On women's equality, Trust has previously said Destiny's Child had it right when they've

celebrated all the honeys making money and she's also said that women should not be

squeamish about pay.

So we will touch on those topics more.

But for now, thank you very much for joining us today, Liz.

Great to be on the show, Katie.

I should point out that I think a couple of weeks ago, we had a guest here,

who was your predecessor as the Women in Equality's brief, Amber Rudd.

She went on to obviously resign from Post, but hopefully we won't have such a

need to put out the podcast quickly in terms of your own position. Absolutely, Katie. Now, before we

get on to women inequalities, I thought it would be best to talk about your role as international

trade secretary. Been there obviously in Post since Boris Johnson formed his government.

But you've been on several trips. We've previously flown around the world and back again, Katie, in the last week

and a half. We went to boo-hoo together in Manchester to interview your chief secretary to the

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