Q Where are they now? What do they do?
A They, they still live in Southampton, where I was born. They are retired. Um, they're spending time with their, well, they keep busy, but they spend time with their grandkids when they can. They just, um, they just, uh, our, our two girls actually were in, uh, in Bangalore this week with Akshala's mum and dad for half term, and then they just got back. But my parents came to surprise them at the airport, so they've been having a nice time, the four of them over the weekend. No, so they still live in the town where I was born and grew up. My dad was a GP, family doctor. My mum was a pharmacist. And, you know, I've, I've spoken about this and, you know, they were very much my inspiration for wanting to go into politics. You might think that's a bit odd given that they, ah, they're medical. But I, I worked for them. And I worked mainly for my mom in the shop in the back. And so I'd be doing making up all the medicines and cleaning things. I do all the accounts as well in the bookkeeping and that got me into business side of things, but, and then I would deliver the medicines. So I'd be on my bike and then in the evenings you'd go around and then I'd drop them off for the patients that couldn't come in and pick them up. And then later, you know, I learned to drive. I did it that way. But the, I was really struck because they've been doing the same thing in the same place, 30 years,…
AI assessment note: “They, they still live in Southampton, where I was born. They are retired.”