I grew up in a single parent family. We were very poor, but very happy. I never really realized I was poor until I was sort of into senior school and then I, because everybody around me was poor, none of us had anything. And we were so ecstatically happy most of the time. It's anyone went to school and started thinking, I can't afford a Kappa jumper. Those boys are wearing faras. They're like, Mum, can I have faras? Absolutely not. You're going to have the plastic school trousers and you're going to love them. But all of those activities were what pushed me to politics. Yes, I'm an elected conservative

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