Women With Balls: with Bridget Phillipson

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🗓️ 3 December 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Bridget Phillipson is the shadow education secretary and MP for Houghton and Sunderland South. On this episode, recorded just before Labour's last reshuffle where Bridget was promoted, she talks to Katy about what it was like to go to Oxford from a humble upbringing, how Labour can win the next election, and why she didn't take career advice from school telling her to be a fence-builder.

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0:39.3	Hello and welcome to Room of Balls, where I, Katie Balls, speak to today's trailblazers.
0:45.1	My guest today was born in Gateshead in the North East. She got into politics at an early age.
0:50.3	Her mother was a Labour member and she herself joined the party aged 15. After attending a comprehensive
0:56.3	school, she went on to study at Oxford, becoming co-chair of the Labour Club during her studies.
1:02.1	After graduating, she managed a refuge in Sunderland for women and children fleeing domestic abuse
1:07.2	before entering the Commons in 2010. She hasn't always backed the winner when it comes to
1:12.2	the Labour Party, supporting David Miller Ban to replace Gordon Brown, a vet Cooper for Labour leader
1:17.0	in 2015, and a year later, after becoming one of 172 Labour MPs to express no confidence in Jeremy Corbyn
1:24.2	voting for Owen Smith. Corbyn's office placed her in the call group negative group in its rankings of Labour MPs.
1:31.6	However, these days she is a favourite among the Labour leadership.
1:34.9	She back Kirstama as leader and became the shadow chief secretary to the Treasury last year.
1:39.6	In the latest reshuffle, which happened just after our chat, she was promoted to shadow education
1:45.0	secretary. Speaking about her upbringing, she said, poverty is not inevitable. It is about the
1:50.6	choices that politicians make. Poverty is not about coats or food in and of themselves, but the
1:56.2	power to make choices for yourself. My guest today is Bridget Philipson. So Bridget, thanks very much for coming
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