Hello and welcome to Women with Balls, where I Katie Balls speak to today's trailblazers.

My guest was born in Wembley and raised by her parents, who emigrated from Kenya and Mauritius.

Her mother was a Conservative councillor for 16 years, which built the foundations of her own political career.

Receiving a scholarship in her education,

she went to Cambridge University, where she read Lauren and chaired her Conservative Association.

In 2015, she entered Parliament, but soon enough grew a reputation as a Brexit rebel, as one of the

Spartans, the group who refused to vote for Theresa May's Brexit deal, not just once, twice but three times.

During her career in politics, she has made history.

She became the first elected female attorney general in Parliament and last year rewrote the

law to become the first cabinet member to take maternity leave whilst in office.

My guest today is Zuella Braverman.

Thank you very much for coming on this podcast. We've been trying to get you on, I think,

for almost two years, but between constitutional crises and children, it's taken a little bit

longer than we planned. Great diary secretaries. But to begin, we always ask, was yours a happy childhood?

Of course. I look back on my childhood with incredible fondness.

My mother and father were incredibly supportive and encouraging.

They taught me, I think, some really guiding principles that I hold true to my heart today.

Your parents are both involved in the community, as I mentioned, in their introduction.

So I just wondered, did you have a sense of politics growing up, or I suppose, duty?

Was that something that was fostered much in the family?

Well, local politics was very present in my childhood.

My mother, as you said, was an elected local councillor in Brent, and my father was a campaigner and a supporter,

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