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Hello. sale. Be quick. The offer ends on Monday. Hello and welcome to Women with Balls, where I, Katie Balls, speak to today's trailblazers.

My guest today was born in Lancashire and grew up in Merseyside. She was the only people at

her secondary school to get 10 O levels. In age 16, she went on to

complete an apprenticeship at a car factory. After studying for a degree in business studies at Liverpool

John Moore's University, she spent the next two decades in the corporate world, rising the ranks

of Nat West, Mastercard and Amadeus. In 2015, politics came calling when Baroness Anne Jenkins persuaded her to run as a Conservative candidate.

After unsuccessfully contesting St. Helen, South and Whiston in 2015, she became director of Women to Win,

an organisation co-founded by Theresa May to get more conservative women

elected. In 2017, she entered Parliament, winning the safety of Chichester. In the following

years, she held a string of junior government positions, backed Theresa May's Brexit deal, and supported

Rory Stewart in the 2019 leadership contest. Remember him. In February 2020, she became

the Minister for Apprenticeships and Skills. My guest today is Julian Keegan. So thank you very much

joining me today, Jillian, and we are recording in the spectator office, but at a very safe,

social distance. Now, one of the things on this podcast we like to do, I suppose as

the first question, is ask what I've been told is a leading question, but let's see, would

you describe your childhood as a happy one? Yeah, definitely. It was a super happy childhood. So there's

myself, I'm the eldest. I've got a sister, brother, mum and dad who are still happily married,

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