Virginia Bottomley, Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone

By early December, Birmingham's starting to panic that they've basically got this one and now it's being taken away from them.

Virginia Bottomley, who's in the Conservative cabinet, she promises that the successful site will be the one linked to the successful operator's bid, right? So Birmingham also says that it's already pledged 50 million towards the project.

Cannot see why the exhibition can't be held there.

London then fights back.

I mean, you say, does anyone know who the shadow health secretary is or the shadow defence secretary is for the Tory party? I bet less than 1% of the public could even name these people.

Isn't it Virginia Bottomley and Tom King? You know, I...

I actually cannot, you know, I actually cannot even think myself who the Tories health spokesperson is.

It was someone called Stuart Andrew, but I think he was he was sacked.

So it was massively powerful.

And three years later, we got, without going on strike, we got a new deal from Virginia Bottomley.

And I will never forget her coming to the Junior Doctors Committee at the BMA.

And she did a speech for about 20 minutes.

So it's like a cheap, soapier ER.

Well... uh yeah i mean it was it was definitely cheaper and yeah and sopia they they were really inspired by is it hill street blues so kind of more realistic kind of thing um and when it's when it started the um you know it's under a conservative government and um the it was debated in in the house of commons um virginia bottomley who was the The health secretary at the time said it was propaganda against the cuts to the NHS and stuff.

So it was like, it was really trying to show for the first time the kind of day-to-day kind of up against the wall thing.

shitness of working.

And they had a running joke with him eating peas with his wife.

And then to add a bit of interest, they imagined that he was having a torrid love affair with Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley.

Was that a real-ass name?

Virginia Bottomley, yes, it was.

That poor woman.

The affair was not real.

Wow.

And you can just