2026-10-06
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My mum, she had a strong personality, clever, funny, quite sharp tongue at times and we spent a lot of time together.
My brother's nearly six years younger than me so I was an only child until I was at school
so mum was very much the closest person in my life.
This is Guardian journalist Heather Stewart talking about her mum, Liz.
She left school at 16 and was a Treasury civil servant
and was kind of climbing the ladder there, then left to have me.
Eventually went to work in our local job centre, which she loved and it made her this kind of great...
I mean, she was a sort of Labour supporter, union member, but she was really strong on the...
How important a job was and also meant that she would know various local characters.