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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 Sutton to her prestigious Bangladeshi family after her mother gained political asylum in the UK. Her grandfather

was the founding father of Bangladesh and her aunt as the current Prime Minister. After joining the

Labour Party at 16, she studied first at UCL, followed by completing a master's at King's College London.

My guest then worked in a variety of political roles such as Amnesty International

and four MPs such as Sadiq Khan. Eventually she became the first Bangladeshi councillor on Camden

Council and went on to be MP for Hampston Kilbin. At the time, the most marginal seat in the

country, no longer. My guest was prominent in campaigning for the return of Nazanin Zagari Radcliffe,

as well as opposing Brexit.

She gained national media attention when she delayed the birth of her son for a critical

parliamentary vote.

Now she serves a shadow economic secretary to the Treasury in Kirst Starmer's team.

My guest today is Tulip Sadiq.

Chulip, thank you for joining today. We begin with,

would you describe yours as a happy childhood? I had a really happy childhood. I was born in London.

I guess I was from quite an unusual immigrant family in that my mother had come here in the

1970s as a political asylum seeker.

She actually settled in the constituency that I now represent in Westminster, which she

always comments on.

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