Early Life
Her father John Derham was a chemist for Fisons and her mother Margaret a teacher. She was born in Canterbury, Kent, but the family moved to Cheshire within a year and she grew up in Wilmslow. She was educated at a primary school in Sandbach and at Cheadle Hulme School where she took A-Levels in French, History and Economics. She then read Economics at Magdalene College, Cambridge graduating with a BA (Hons).
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