IT WAS while watching the telly with her granny that the spark was lit for Joani Reid, she recalls.
“The then prime minister was on, I think it was Boris, and my granny – who is now in her 80s – said that for the first time, she was really very concerned about the future of the country,” explains Joani.
Growing up on the Southside of Glasgow, Joani says her grandfather was a big influence in her life.“I grew up around politics - not party politics as such, but discussions around what needed to be done to make the country better, how institutions should be organised for the benefit of everyone,” she explains.
Joani studied politics and philosophy at Glasgow University, then moved to London to do a Masters degree in public policy and management. She became a councillor in Lewisham, working as part of the cabinet on safer communities, tackling a range of issues including violence against women and girls and knife
“On the doorsteps, people are telling me they are having to remortgage their homes and they are terrified, or they’re using their life savings to pay for an operation."
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