Eleanor Mills
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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And he was very passionate about social mobility.
We used to do a lot of putting the world to rights in the pub.
My stepmother was Tessa Jow.
She was MP for Dulwich.
She'd always been a Labour Party kind of activist and Tessa was very much part of that kind of new Labour inner circle.
So I grew up in a very kind of Labour political family.
So we had a lot of discussions about the effects of Thatcherism and what had happened to the kids that Andy had been to school with.
And he was really passionate then about how
He was clever, academically clever, so he'd got out and gone to Cambridge.
But he talked a lot about bright kids in his class for whom there was no route out.
He felt very angry about the waste of talent and also about how the British establishment was very hard to get into.
He'd been at Cambridge, he'd been a real political activist for quite a long time and he couldn't break into Westminster, which is where he wanted to be.
I used to think of it very much like a penguin huddle and somebody needs to open the huddle to let you in.
And I thought Andy really had what it took.
And so one Sunday lunch, I was sitting around with my stepmother, Tessa, and Tessa said she needed a new parliamentary researcher.
And I immediately said, I've got just the chat for you.
Lo and behold, he went along for a few interviews and he got the job.
I think when he was a younger politician probably his weaknesses were he kind of was quite keen to be liked and he wanted to get on and I think he was a
He's a good team player.
So I think he probably went along with, as I said, those kind of cabinet decisions on things that weren't necessarily what he believed in.
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