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The Beginning of a Career in Politics
When you were working as a special advisor, what are you like in your 20s when this is happening? Yeah. And was that a day job to sort of appease your parents? I wasn't to appease my folks who were always good at sort of just being pleased. So I was pleased to work for the Labor Party. It was before the 97 election and I wanted there to be a change of government and I was also pleased to do something which I'd been doingsort of jobs like washing up and working in off licenses and stuff. "It was quite nice to have something to tell people that sounded like the beginning of a career even though I don't think I ever thought it was
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