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Derrick Evans

Derrick Evans

Politician

Aug 23, 2026

speaker_1HOST
1:45
Perfect.
1:46
My life is all about... trying to survive out there.
1:49
So let's say you're a single parent, you've been homeless, you got nowhere to stay, you're in a bed and breakfast, you really want to actually succeed.
1:58
So you do whatever jobs are available.
1:59
One minute I'm stacking shelves in Tesco, next minute I'm on a building site.
2:03
Didn't really matter, you know, I just did whatever I had to do to survive because I would look after my daughter on my own.
2:09
And one day I'm in a leisure center in Harrow and I could hear this noise coming from down the corridor.

7 MINS LATER

speaker_1HOST
8:57
Because
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19:10
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19:14
You alluded at the beginning to- Yeah ... uh, basically being a single dad- Yes ... age 22? 22, yeah.
19:20
22.
19:21
Mm-hmm.
19:21
Okay.
19:22
And so tell me about parenting as a single dad.
19:25
Yeah, you know, that's toughest time in my life.

29 MINS LATER

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Tell us, what is the most unbelievable lesson that life has taught you?

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