Hello, Pottletas. This is the last episode of season 9. I've absolutely loved this season.

I think it's one of my favorites. Yeah, and this episode is Defo of Fab1 to Andon.

I speak to Nadia Wittem, who is the Labour MP for Nottingham East, and she also became the youngest MP at 23 in 2019.

We discussed the three things she wishes she had been taught in school, namely being taught in a way that she learns.

A fuller curriculum, including that history, the climate crisis and trade unionism,

as well as how to cook properly. I really hope you enjoy listening, and as always, thank you so much for being a part of the podcast by listening with your ears. Lots of love. Bye!

Hello and welcome to Adelting. Today, I'm joined by Nadia Wittem. Hi, Anani. Hi, how are you doing? Yeah, I'm well-thanks. How are you? Or as well as Campy during lockdown? How are you doing? I'm actually doing okay. I'm finding this third lockdown slightly easier, but I was talking to my boyfriend about this.

I don't know if it's just because we've got used to it now, and you're kind of better prepared to deal with it. Do you know what I mean?

Yeah, it feels strange to me, well, not just strange, it's massively disappointing and unacceptable to be a year on it, to still be in this position, but I was chatting to my friends about lockdowns and how they've become like hopeful reference points.

Oh, yeah, no, that was the thing during the first lockdown. Oh, yeah, remember midway through the second lockdown, and this was a trend?

It's so true. It's like Tiger King was locked down one, wasn't it? That was like the main thing.

Yeah, I actually never saw that. I was so busy during lockdown, what I'm not. I felt like, yeah, the only thing that I did really was scroll on TikTok.

And I'm like doing my full time job and everything else, but in terms of like cultural stuff takes off was about it.

If you can call it cultural, I think it is.

Oh, it's definitely cultural. It's a huge phenomenon, and I was going to say, I imagine with your job, you probably don't have much downtime to be chilling about bingeing Netflix.

So for people maybe who don't know who you are, could you give us an instruction to Nadia, what you do, what you're about, all that kind of jazz?

Yeah, I'm the member of Parliament for Nottingham East. I'm a Labour MP, and you might also know me as the youngest MP in the UK, the so called baby of the house.

So I know that I've listened to you talk about it for, but I would, I mean, I was called the baby in my family because I'm the youngest, but I think in a work setting, it's a pretty shitty kind of like nickname. How do you feel about that?

Yeah, like you, I'm also the youngest in my family.

I was the youngest in my year, my birthday's on the 29th of August. So I've always been used to being the youngest, but being called the baby of the house at work is pretty infantilizing.

But you know, you've just got to kind of roll with it, and I guess sometimes be prepared to put people back in their place a little bit, like sometimes journalists will use it to introduce me or just kind of try to undermine some of the political points that I'm trying to make.

And I just got to be careful not to let that happen. Yeah, that's so true. And also it is really satisfying when you completely change someone's opinion of you or like go against all their preconceptions. That is quite like a small enjoyable win, which I imagine you get to have quite a lot of the time.

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