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Katie Lam’s household have identified Britain at its finest and seen the world at its worst. Her great-great grandfather fled the Nazis and made his house in England along with his household. Thirty-four-year-old Ms Lam is now on a mission to revive what she calls the “greatest country in the world”.

If there’s a British reply to the American dream, she has lived it. She was head woman on the Guildford complete college eight homes down the street from her own residence; she gained a spot at Cambridge the place she was elected president of the union and he or she chaired the college’s Conservative affiliation.

Ms Lam rose via the ranks at Goldman Sachs but additionally discovered time to co-create musicals and cabaret exhibits which have been carried out at venues together with New York’s legendary Studio 54. She labored for Boris Johnson in Downing Street and sought to thwart terrorists and gangsters whereas on the Home Office, and final yr she entered the Commons because the MP for the newly created Weald of Kent.

She gained consideration together with her passionate requires justice for the victims of grooming gangs and at present she identifies two key threats to Britain’s future.

The first is the financial system. When it comes to creating Britons wealthier, she says “we’ve made no progress in my adult life”.

And, secondly, she argues the “fudge” of trying to counter financial stagnation by embracing mass immigration should cease.

If this continues, she warns, “there’ll be even fewer places to live relative to how many people there are. It’ll be even harder to get a GP appointment.

“But also, I think it has really serious implications for our society and our culture because there’s no way you can integrate and assimilate that volume of people over that period of time. It just can’t be done.”

She helps a “serious program to send home everybody who’s here illegally”, an general cap on immigration and reform of the “indefinite leave to remain” system which allows people to stay in the UK with no time limit.

Ms Lam does not want the UK to become a nation where people “don’t know their neighbours” and he or she argues the essence of “Britishness” can’t be taught in a classroom.

“You can only learn it by living amongst it,” she says – which she argues is why it’s “really destructive to our national culture” when folks reside in “enclaves” with “completely different cultures”.

She makes her case at a time when many individuals with issues about excessive immigration have turned to Reform UK, which sits at 30% within the newest Techne ballot, forward of Labour on 20% and the Conservatives on 19%.

Ms Lam insists the Tories can win the subsequent election.

“I believe that the nation needs a reformed Conservative party or I wouldn’t be doing this,” she says.

The journey of her grandmother’s grandfather to Britain formed his descendants seen democracy. He was a Left-wing senator whose condemnation of the Nazis led to the household being stripped of their citizenship.

She recollects: “We were never cynical about politicians in my family.”

Politics appeared “very high stakes” and “kind of exciting” – it was “about good and evil and fighting for the soul of a country and a people”. It seemed like “an amazing thing to do with your life”.

Ms Lam discovered herself on the frontline of a nationwide disaster throughout the pandemic. As a senior determine within the Downing Street enterprise group she spent the times earlier than Rishi Sunak’s furlough scheme was unveiled pleading with employers to not sack employees.

“I spent the whole time on the phone to businesses saying, ‘Please, something is coming. I can’t tell you what it is because nobody knows yet, because it hasn’t yet been written. But it is coming.

“‘Please don’t make 15,000 people redundant. Just give me 72 hours.”

She has combined emotions about this time, admitting: “I hope the Government is never that powerful again.”

It was a mistake, she argues, to shut colleges and he or she believes some hospital visits have been unnecessarily stopped.

“There are men who never met their babies because they only lived for an hour and they weren’t allowed into the hospital,” she says. “I don’t think that should ever have happened.”

In Parliament, she was on the forefront of the push for a nationwide inquiry into grooming gangs. She understands why there was such entrenched denial for therefore lengthy in regards to the scale of the disaster.

“For a long time, not just the Labour Party and the Government but what one might call the establishment didn’t really want to believe that this could possibly be true,” she says. “And it is so horrific that it does seem like it can’t be true.

“There’s just something in you that says, ‘That’s so awful that that can’t be real.’”

But now she is anxious by a second wave of “lies”, as folks faux they have been alert to the horrors unfolding within the nation’s streets.

“That leaves a bad taste in my mouth,” she says.

Vigilance will probably be required because the inquiry course of goes ahead, she argues: “The victims and survivors are very hopeful and that is crucially important but I think the Government’s feet are going to have to be held to the fire pretty much every step of the way.”

As a schoolgirl she “totally fell in love with Latin” and finding out the rise and fall of historic empires at college has formed her political perspective.

The way forward for Western civilization can’t be taken with no consideration, she claims. But, she provides, “it’s done pretty well so far.”

And within the House of Commons she is certainly one of 650 folks battling to form the way forward for this nation.

“I just really like to get involved,” she says. “When I was a kid, my mum always used to say to me and my younger sister, ‘Well, someone’s got to do it, so why shouldn’t it be you?”

The Conservative get together and the nation could be renewed, she states, with the correct combination of “honesty, consistency and hope”.

“I believe this is the greatest country in the world,” she enthuses. “It saved the free world multiple times.

“It gave parliamentary democracy to the human race. I mean, Britain is an incredible place.”

As Ms Lam has proved, it’s a land of alternative.