A City-loving Manć taking on the world.. & Rees-Mogg

MY FIRST memory of Lucy Powell is from some time in 1993. A force of nature in baggy jeans and a vest top, she was 18, and most likely berating someone in authority for some injustice with the crowd on her side.

- BY ROS WYNNE-JONES

We were both students at Oxford, and rather like another Iron Lady, Lucy was in Somerville College.

Liz Truss was a fellow student. Jacob Rees-Mogg stalked the corridors in Victorian fancy dress, as if it were 1893. The baronet George Osborne was running an "ironic" student newspaper in which he dressed up as a wizard agony aunt.