Kemi Badenoch

So there's a limit on how many places that can be. Engineering, on the other hand, is not. And

So there's a limit on how many places that can be. Engineering, on the other hand, is not. And

the society that i grew up in had four magic courses there was medicine engineering law and accounting and if you you know that you were almost judged if you didn't do one of those four things so i thought well i can't do medicine i'm you know good at maths i like computers a lot by then i was already coding i'd been coding since i was seven years old my dad got me a zx81 and then a spectrum plus two so all of these things just the exposure to those sorts of things helped me so i went uh

the society that i grew up in had four magic courses there was medicine engineering law and accounting and if you you know that you were almost judged if you didn't do one of those four things so i thought well i can't do medicine i'm you know good at maths i like computers a lot by then i was already coding i'd been coding since i was seven years old my dad got me a zx81 and then a spectrum plus two so all of these things just the exposure to those sorts of things helped me so i went uh

the society that i grew up in had four magic courses there was medicine engineering law and accounting and if you you know that you were almost judged if you didn't do one of those four things so i thought well i can't do medicine i'm you know good at maths i like computers a lot by then i was already coding i'd been coding since i was seven years old my dad got me a zx81 and then a spectrum plus two so all of these things just the exposure to those sorts of things helped me so i went uh

onto a course for systems engineering and i just kept reading and i took a year off to work because i needed to save up money for university and i met a lot of kids uh during my apprenticeship i worked as an apprentice engineer i met a lot of other people who were going to oxford and cambridge and they had more of the sort of culture that i had grown up with so hanging out with people

onto a course for systems engineering and i just kept reading and i took a year off to work because i needed to save up money for university and i met a lot of kids uh during my apprenticeship i worked as an apprentice engineer i met a lot of other people who were going to oxford and cambridge and they had more of the sort of culture that i had grown up with so hanging out with people

onto a course for systems engineering and i just kept reading and i took a year off to work because i needed to save up money for university and i met a lot of kids uh during my apprenticeship i worked as an apprentice engineer i met a lot of other people who were going to oxford and cambridge and they had more of the sort of culture that i had grown up with so hanging out with people

who were different in a different setting also had an influence. And then also just knowing that if I didn't get my act together, my life trajectory would end up in a place that I would not like. I'd already had all the values instilled in me by my parents.

who were different in a different setting also had an influence. And then also just knowing that if I didn't get my act together, my life trajectory would end up in a place that I would not like. I'd already had all the values instilled in me by my parents.

who were different in a different setting also had an influence. And then also just knowing that if I didn't get my act together, my life trajectory would end up in a place that I would not like. I'd already had all the values instilled in me by my parents.

So 16, technically still a child, but just old enough to know how to, it's just old enough to remember and not forget what the values that you've been inculcated with, I would say.

So 16, technically still a child, but just old enough to know how to, it's just old enough to remember and not forget what the values that you've been inculcated with, I would say.

So 16, technically still a child, but just old enough to know how to, it's just old enough to remember and not forget what the values that you've been inculcated with, I would say.

It is a great relief. Do you know why it's a great relief? Because you then, you find your people. And my dad used to talk about, when he was alive and when I was younger, he used to talk about a law of homogeneity. And he said, people find their kind of people and you will always get, they find each other and they stick together. And I had this experience when I joined the Conservative Party.

It is a great relief. Do you know why it's a great relief? Because you then, you find your people. And my dad used to talk about, when he was alive and when I was younger, he used to talk about a law of homogeneity. And he said, people find their kind of people and you will always get, they find each other and they stick together. And I had this experience when I joined the Conservative Party.

It is a great relief. Do you know why it's a great relief? Because you then, you find your people. And my dad used to talk about, when he was alive and when I was younger, he used to talk about a law of homogeneity. And he said, people find their kind of people and you will always get, they find each other and they stick together. And I had this experience when I joined the Conservative Party.

I thought, these are my people. Like, where have you guys been all my life? People who I agreed with on almost everything, people who thought the way I did about so much. And I think when you are in a place where the people around you think so differently, you feel very isolated.

I thought, these are my people. Like, where have you guys been all my life? People who I agreed with on almost everything, people who thought the way I did about so much. And I think when you are in a place where the people around you think so differently, you feel very isolated.

I thought, these are my people. Like, where have you guys been all my life? People who I agreed with on almost everything, people who thought the way I did about so much. And I think when you are in a place where the people around you think so differently, you feel very isolated.