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Women WIth Balls: the Dehenna Davison Edition

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4.4785 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Dehenna Davison is the MP for Bishop Auckland, and a rising star in Boris Johnson's 2019 'red wall' intake. On this episode, recorded just after Conservative party conference, Dehenna tells Katy about what it was like to lose her father to a pub brawl so young, getting her work marked in Latin by Jacob Rees-Mogg and her plans to go to a Taylor Swift concert with the Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.

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0:00.0

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0:35.6

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

0:40.3

My guest today was born in Sheffield. Her father was a stonemason and her mother, a nursery nurse.

0:45.3

She went to Hull University to read British politics and legislative studies

0:49.3

who was spending a year working as parliamentary aid for Jacob Rees-Mogg.

0:53.3

She also had various jobs working for a

0:55.1

casino, a betting shop and pizza hut. After contesting for a seat in Parliament in 2015 and 2017,

1:02.2

my guest then aged just 26, was elected as MP for Bishop Auckland in the 2019 election.

1:08.1

It was the first time a Conservatives had ever won there. Since being in Parliament,

1:13.0

she has set up an all-parliamentary group and started hosting her own show on G.B. News,

1:17.4

the political correction. My guest today is Deanna Davidson. So Deanna, thank you very much

1:22.6

for joining Annie today. We are at Tory conference. Everyone has left.

1:27.4

Just the two of us literally sitting on a stage looking at a load of empty chairs.

1:31.3

And what was the spectator conference events room.

1:34.3

And I think between us we've probably got a few hours of sleep last night.

1:37.3

Yes, but we are still perky.

1:39.3

Exactly. We can get through this.

1:41.3

Now, before we get on with the podcast, I was just going to ask you about

1:44.6

the Tory scum badges that you've been dishing out a conference and that you've probably been,

1:49.3

the person who's been amassing the biggest crowds when you're walking around. Can you explain

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