Annie Macron
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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You have to hold power to account.
So that was quite the antithesis of any sort of government connection.
I wanted to be a diplomat.
Jaw-jaw rather than war-war is always the best approach to quote, I think, Winston Churchill.
And this is something that I found very fascinating.
So I applied to the Foreign Office in the UK and then had a weird anonymous letter from the Ministry of Defence saying there may be other jobs you'd find more interesting.
If you are interested, ring this number.
I was back at home, actually, with my pa.
And since I saw it instinctively, I said, oh, fuck, it's MI5.
This is the ladylike education I had, right?
Rather, because he was a journalist and because he was a spy novel fan, he just said, please ring this number and see if it is MI5.
So it's all my past fault.
That's how I ended up in MI5.
No, they just said, oh, it's good to hear from you.