Sir Ed Davey
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 2 Jun
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And it's this whole life of secrecy, which I wasn't attracting me.
so, yes, it was like, you know, I like James Bond films and all that.
You see that.
But I realised it wasn't like that.
Because what you would do, you'd be posted as a defence attaché or trade attaché to a membership somewhere.
And you'd be...
garnering information that wasn't the public domain to help foreign policy or to help our war against drugs or to deal with terrorists.
So it's a really very important thing that people who do it, you know, shoot the head behind them.
But I just didn't feel it was for me and I'd begun to get the political bug because I started
the Lib Dems and, you know,
no, no.
That's definitely gone through my head.
Yeah.
that um yeah and obviously james bond lost his both his parents as we famously know and i wouldn't
but he uh i think um i i wouldn't be surprised it's one of their things yeah tick off their list because you you're then focused on them for service doing the job doing it serving your country you're not worried about these are the ties so i guess i guess that's
That's part of it.
So you'd have been great.
Where would you want to be posted?
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