What first interested you in politics?

What first interested you in politics?

Andrew Phillips (Lord) gives expert video advice on: What first interested you in politics?; How did you begin your political career?; If you could have chosen any other career what would it have been? and more...

That's easy. My father was a frustrated MP, a would-be MP, he never had enough money to really have a go at it, although he was asked to. He grew up in a Welsh mining town in the bad years after the First World War, where everybody was socialist, and he remained a staunch socialist to his dying day.