Dining across the divide: ‘The one thing we bonded over was despising Reform’

A medical charity worker and an oncologist delved into the NHS, obesity and assisted dying. But could they agree on hiring doctors from abroad?

Occupation Oncologist

Voting record Historically, “whatever wasn’t Conservative”. Her new rule is “not Reform or the Conservatives”

Amuse bouche She is bilingual in English and Tamil, speaks decent French, German and Japanese, a little bit of Spanish, and could pull out ancient Greek and Latin “if required”

Occupation Education programmes assistant at a medical charity