Sir Ed Davey

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478 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 2 Jun

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Walking The Dog with Emily Dean · Sir Ed Davey (Part One) · 2 Jun 2026 podcast

Well, I think we worked hard and, you know, we got lucky in the gene pool.

Yeah.

I mean, we went to a great school.

We were very lucky.

Some great teachers.

For me, though, there was a point that I think you're alluding to where my mum had gone and, you know, I think a lot of the kids, they work hard to please their parents.

Yeah.

And I had no one to do that for anymore.

And I remember standing in the kitchen at our house in Nottingham and thinking, why am I going to do this?

I've got

this work for my O-Levels.

And I sort of took a decision, well, I'm doing it for myself now, so you better buck up, mate, and sort yourself out.

And also I had to beat competition with my two brothers.

I couldn't let them do better than I did.

So I had to work hard to beat them as well.

Sibling rivalry also helped.

So are you quite competitive?

We were in those days with each other.

You

leader.

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