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

My guest today was born in Kashmir and moved to the UK of her parents.

She graduated from Birmingham City University in government and politics

before getting a master's from Leeds University in International Relations.

After working in the charity sector and then moving to BBC's World Service,

she transitioned to politics, coming out on top in a competitive primary in Whelden. In 2015, she became

the constituency's first female MP. In Parliament, she has sat on both the Home and Foreign

Affairs Committees, being a minister at the Department for Transport, worked as an assistant whip.

In 2018, she was the first female as the minister to speak from the Commons Dispatch

Box. Recently, she has been one of the loudest voices in British politics to condemn human rights

violations in China. This led to her being one of nine UK citizens to be sanctioned by China.

She now can't visit the country, and Chinese businesses are forbidden from working with her.

On the news, she said, I know I won't be intimidated. This has now made me feel even more determined to speak about the

Uyga. My guest today is a Conservative MP Nisgarni. So thank you very much for joining us today

on the podcast. We really appreciate you finding the time, particularly I think we must be a very

busy few days for you after that announcement from the Chinese government. on the podcast we really appreciate you finding the time particularly i think must be a very busy

few days for you after that announcement from the chinese government that i mentioned but before we

get to that what we like to do in this podcast is rewind the hands of time and start a bit at the beginning

and the question we tend to ask everyone is would you describe yours as a happy childhood? As I mentioned in the

introduction, you were born in Kashmir. Yes, I suppose so. I think I don't know what I would

compare it to at the time. It was, I suspect it was probably was very busy. So when my parents

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