you find, like many people in public life, he was that they are talking about? no, it s really weird, i don t recognise myself at all. my family don t and my friends don t recognise it. it s bizarre, i am a gemini so i sometimes think i have this split personality that the public facing one that people see and the one that all my mates and my family see. so it is, it is a bit of an odd one, yeah. what s the difference between what people see in private and what we see in public? i don t really know. i am a politician now, 17 years i m a politician and so i don t think from the day i became a politician that i ve actually acted like one. because i came into politics really at the end of my career. i d been a nurse for ten years in the nhs, i set up my own business, sold my business and found myself in the fortunate position of being able to do what i wanted to do and politics was kind of like my hobby. so i became a politician
my family don t and my friends don t recognise it. it s bizarre, i am a gemini so i sometimes think i have this split personality the public facing one that people see and the one that all my mates and my family see. so it is, it is a bit of an odd one, yeah. what s the difference between what people see in private and what we see in public? i don t really know. i am a politician now, 17 years i m a politician and so i don t think from the day i became a politician that i ve actually acted like one. because i came into politics really at the end of my career. i d been a nurse for ten years in the nhs, i set up my own business, sold my business and found myself in the fortunate position of being able to do what i wanted to do and politics was kind of like my hobby. so i became a politician and was very fortunate to have been elected as an mp. and i think because, if you look back 17 years ago when i arrived in westminster, it started from the day i arrived.
she says she s someone who owes absolute undying loyalty to her boss, borisjohnson. and she often, as we may discover, wades in to defend him. nadine dorries, welcome to political thinking. hi, nick. was that a fair introduction? it s fair. ijust wonder, when you hear the things people say about you, and they say quite a lot, don t they? do you recognise yourself or do you find, like many people in public life, he was that they are talking about? no, it s really weird, i don t recognise myself at all. my family don t and my friends don t recognise it. it s bizarre, i am a gemini so i sometimes think i have this split personality that the public facing one that people see and the one that all my mates and my family see. so it is, it is a bit of an odd one, yeah. what s the difference between what people see in private and what we see in public? i don t really know. i am a politician now,
my brothers are eight and five years older than me, so we didn t really hang out together or anything like that. and i had friends, but it was. inevitably, i kind of had this split personality, almost, where i d be living in a home where we d talk about india a great deal, or my parents would be speaking punjabi quite a lot. so you were in kent but you felt very indian? sometimes, but then, when i would go to school, i d have all the same reference points as everyone else around me so i d be listening as a teenager to led zeppelin, the doors, you know, all kinds of different stuff, and also jazz but at home, i d often listen to flamenco, indian classical music, cuban music different music from around the world. and the other key aspect of your childhood was racism. yeah, a lot. you were bullied, you were abused sometimes by adults as well as by other children. yes, i was. i mean, i kind of. during the 705 i mean,