I didn’t study law at university. I studied history at Oxford. A huge love. I’ve loved debating since a young age. My mother would despair of my father and me, telling us to stop arguing. We’d say: ‘It’s not arguing! It’s a healthy discussion!’
I was quite naive. I remember saying to my tutor that I was thinking of doing law and I got a little postcard in my pigeon hole, saying: ‘The Bar, I presume?’ I replied, ‘Actually, no, I’m going to join Clifford Chance.’ It’s international and I wanted the bright lights of the City. Not to mention that the firm was going to fund me through law school for two years. That was a big incentive. It also had a swimming pool in the basement.
