"Still only 34 and in parliament for little over a year, Lam is named almost ubiquitously by fellow Conservatives as a likely future leader even, some venture, a direct replacement for Kemi Badenoch. Lam does have the sort of CV almost designed to impress Tory constituency associations, with its route from state school to Cambridge, Goldman Sachs, then stints as an aide in Downing Street and the Home Office."
"It is a striking trajectory for someone whose socialist great-great-grandfather fled the Nazis in Germany, whose grandparents met while delivering leaflets for the Labour party, and who was herself a deputy chief of staff to Boris Johnson, now so reviled by right-leaning Tories for his relaxed approach to migration. One senior Conservative who recalls Lam from her time in Johnson's No 10 says that while her job was more administrative than policy-focused, she showed no signs then of anti-migration zeal."
Katie Lam is a 34-year-old Conservative MP with a background from state school to Cambridge, Goldman Sachs, and roles in Downing Street and the Home Office. Lam is widely named by fellow Conservatives as a likely future leader or replacement for senior figures. Her social media output focuses intensely on migration and grooming gangs, often highlighting crimes by asylum seekers and using language associated with hard-right populism. Lam serves as a shadow Home Office minister and a government whip, concentrating on perceived problems linked to migrants and minority ethnic communities. Family history includes socialist roots and refugees from Nazi Germany.
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