Women With Balls: Victoria Prentis and Vika

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🗓️ 17 February 2023

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Summary

For this special episode of Women With Balls, the government’s Attorney General, Victoria Prentis joins Katy along with Vika … a young Ukrainian woman who came over to the UK under the Homes For Ukraine scheme after the war began.

On the podcast, Victoria talks about how life has changed since Vika joined the family and as part of her role in government, working with the Ukrainian prosecutor general who will conduct war crimes tribunals. Vika tells Katy about the steps taken to escape Kyiv at the start of the war; her new life in Oxfordshire having been taken in by the community and what she misses about her home in Ukraine.

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0:00.0	The Spectator magazine combines incisive political analysis with books and arts reviews of unrivaled authority. Absolutely free. Go to spectator.com.uk forward slash voucher.
0:26.5	Hello and welcome to Womber Falls, where I talk to today's trailblazers.
0:30.5	On February 24th, it will be one year since the war in Ukraine first started.
0:35.0	So to mark that, my guest joining me today, having part of the British
0:38.2	Homes for Ukraine scheme, launched to support Ukrainian nationals who have fled their homes due to the
0:43.4	war. One of my guests is the Conservative MP for Banbury, Victoria Apprentice, now attorney
0:48.5	general in government who was one of the first MPs to home a Ukrainian refugee. Joining Harris Vika, who fled her home in Ukraine and for the last year has settled into her adoptive
0:59.3	home in Oxfordshire. Thank you both for joining us today. It's great to be here.
1:04.2	Thank you. Lovely to see you. Victoria, just to begin, I wonder if you could tell our listeners a little
1:08.4	about where you and Vika are living at the moment.
1:11.8	It's the same place that you grew up?
1:13.7	Yes, I live in my constituency near Bambri in Oxfordshire, a very rural village,
1:21.4	and the village has really taken Vika into its heart.
1:26.1	And that's been one of the things that has surprised me about this whole experience. When we first learnt that Vika into its heart. And that's been one of the things that has surprised me about this
1:28.8	whole experience. When we first learnt that Vika was coming to live with us, I thought she was a
1:33.9	sophisticated girl about town. She'd want to stay in our flat in London, maybe work in the city.
1:40.0	Not at all. She arrived in our village, Somerton, and everybody was so kind and welcoming.
1:47.8	It was really overwhelming.
1:49.2	And I think she feels very safe there.
1:51.2	Yeah, it's a lovely place.
1:52.6	And Vika, how did you in Victoria and me?
1:54.5	Because you arrived in the UK a few days before the scheme actually opened.
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