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Women With Balls: with Ruth Davidson

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4.4785 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Ruth Davidson is the former leader of the Scottish Conservatives and now sits in the House of Lords as the Baroness of Lundin Links. On the episode, she speaks to Katy about her happy upbringing as an active tomboy despite a near-death car accident at the age of five; her mother's reaction when she left the BBC to join the Scottish Tories ('she was appalled'); and gave a punchy defence of Theresa May ('I absolutely think the Party did her wrong').

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0:00.0

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0:04.9

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0:41.1

My guest today was raised from Selkirk and later five.

0:44.4

Her father, an ex-football of apartheid fissal, and her mother, a Bible class leader.

0:49.7

She studied at the University of Edinburgh, where she graduated with an MA in literature.

0:54.2

She then went into journalism, swimming with sharks and reporting from war zones, but went on to try and drive real change, eventually, swapping the literal shark tank for a political one in the form of the Scottish Parliament.

1:06.2

Her meteoric rise within the party is well documented,, instrumental in the 2014 Scottish independence debate

1:12.1

and later an ardent remain campaigner. She won the nickname Queen of Scots for her work

1:17.0

transforming the fortunes Scottish Conservatives, replacing Labour as the second largest party

1:22.0

in Scottish Parliament in 2016. However, while she was tipped by some as a future first minister and prime minister,

1:29.6

she resigned as leader of the Scottish Conservatives in 2019. Explaining her priorities,

1:35.1

she said she never wants to be Prime Minister because she values her mental health and balancing

1:39.0

family life too much. Now a Conservative peer, my guest today is Baroness Roof Davidson. So Roof, thank you

1:46.6

very much for joining us today. On this podcast, we tend to begin by asking us yours a happy childhood.

1:52.0

Some say it's a loaded question. So how would you describe your childhood? I don't think it is a

1:56.1

loads of question at all. Yeah, I had a really happy childhood. So I grew up, as you said in your

2:00.6

introduction,

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