Women With Balls: Katie Lam

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🗓️ 7 April 2025

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Katie Lam was elected as a new Conservative MP, for Weald of Kent, at the 2024 election. While studying at Cambridge she was president of the Cambridge Union and chairman of the Conservative Association, and she was later a special advisor – first under Boris Johnson in the business unit at Number 10, and then later working on counterterrorism with Suella Braverman. In between university and politics, she worked at Goldman Sachs and at AI-specialists Faculty, and she is also an accomplished lyricist and scriptwriter having co-written five musicals. She was appointed a Tory assistant whip last year when Kemi Badenoch took over as leader.

On the podcast, Katie talks to Katy Balls about attending Tory party conference with her dad, what Katy calls the ‘chief prefect vibes’ of her CV and whether investment banking or politics is more cutthroat. Having started at Number 10 in 2019, she also talks about the highs and lows at the end of the Brexit negotiations and why the pandemic will probably be the hardest moment of her professional career – plus a mention of that incident with Dilyn the dog. Having a great-great grandfather who was a socialist politician and fierce critic of the Nazis, and who had to flee persecution, she also opens up about her family’s influence on her politics and her values.

Produced by Patrick Gibbons.

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0:00.0	This episode of Women with Balls is sponsored by Alliance Witten Investment Trust. From the OPEC
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0:45.8	Hello and welcome to Women with Balls, where I, Katie Balls, speak to today's Trailblazers.
0:50.6	My guest today was elected as a new Conservative MP at the 2024 general election.
0:55.6	Her association of party politics began long before that while studying at Cambridge.
0:59.8	She was chairman of the University's Conservative Association.
1:03.2	After university, she spent the start of her career in the private sector with stints in financial services at Goldman Sachs and the technology industry.
1:11.3	She served as a special advisor to Boris Johnson in Number 10,
1:15.2	and then she later worked for Suella Braverman.
1:18.0	She is also an accomplished lyricist and scriptwriter,
1:20.7	having co-written five musicals.
1:23.0	In 2024, she was elected as the MP for Wheel of Kent,
1:26.1	one of the safest Tory seats in the country.
1:28.9	My guest today is Katie Lamb.
1:34.9	Katie, welcome to the podcast.
1:37.0	Thank you for having me.
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