What made you go into politics?
Margaret Thatcher and the feeling that government wasn’t just not sticking up for people in the north-west, it was actively working against them.
What job did you do before you became an MP?
I worked at Centrepoint, the youth homelessness charity, and then at The Children’s Society for five years.
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