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

No, in politics of course I am.

I'm in this to change the world.

I'm in this to get into power.

I'm in this to win for my values and the way I see things.

That's what politics is about, isn't it?

You've got to be in it to win it.

Well I had a number of things I was thinking about doing.

Oxford?

Yeah so I was thinking about what I'd do before I graduated and one of the things I wondered about working for John Lewis Partnership.

Because I really like John Lewis and I love the fact that the employees have a say and a voice.

So I went to their milk round and decided not to do it.

I also was really keen on working in developing countries

my cousin Peter made a big impact on my life, Peter Lawton.

Worked for Marie Stopes and the World Health Organisation.

Going to different countries and building primary healthcare centres, working with local

mainly to help women with women's education and women's choices over their bodies and their future and their families.

And I was quite inspired by him and also he championed the tiger, he set up a tiger charity.

His belief was if he saved the tiger he'd save the world environment, that was his thesis.

So I was really quite inspired by him and so I did think about, well I applied for a grant from some government department to do an MSc in agricultural economics.

So I could take my economic background and try and help less well-off countries.

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