Biography
Ussher is the daughter of an Anglo-Irish lawyer father, and headmistress mother whose brother is Peter Bottomley. Consequently, this makes her the niece of the former Conservative cabinet minister, Virginia Bottomley
She was educated on a free place at the independent St Paul's Girls' School, and Balliol College, Oxford, where she read PPE, and Birkbeck College, London, where she took a MSc in Economics.
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