Early Career
She began her career as an economics researcher for the Shadow Chancellor John Smith in 1990 before working in Arkansas for Democratic Presidential candidate Bill Clinton in 1992. Later in that year she became a policy advisor to new the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Harriet Harman and in 1994 became a research associate at the Centre for Economic Performance. In 1995 she became the economic correspondent of The Independent until her election to Parliament.
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