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Hello and welcome to Women of Balls, where I Katie will speak to today's trailplaces.

My guest today was born in Yorkshire. She attended Gateway School for Girls and Leeds Girls High School before going on to study law and New New College Cambridge. After Cambridge, she became a barrister and was appointed a QC age 40.

However, she gave up her legal life for a political one. In 2015, she entered Parliament and has

since risen through the parliamentary ranks, holding a number of ministerial roles,

including Solicitorial General, financial secretary of the treasury and minister of

state for housing and planning earlier this year my guest is appointed as a secretary of state for

culture my guest today is lucy fraser so lucy thank you very much for coming on this podcast

we begin by asking the same question which is would you describe yours as a happy childhood

I would I think I had a very happy childhood.

My parents were really supportive.

So I've got two sisters.

I grew up in Leeds.

And they supported us whatever we wanted to do.

So, you know, I went to Cambridge.

I studied law, but both my sisters left school at 16.

One went to beauty school.

One went to drama school.

And they, you know, they supported us whatever our choices were and whatever we chose to do and I had the most phenomenal

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