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A “complex woman”, Mrs Spencer had once aspired to the stage herself, but – according to her daughter - “just gave up on life... and decided she was an invalid at the age of 40”.

In her memoir The Truths We Hold, Harris described it as a place "you could come as you were and leave as the person you aspired to be".

Asked about her own leadership style, Badenoch said she aspired to be a "fun" leader and would try to bring some "humour" and "light-heartedness" to her approach.

“Middleware would restore that freedom of choice to individual users, whose agency would return the internet to the kind of diverse, multiplatform system it aspired to be back in the 1990s.”

He aspired to be an epidemiologist in academia and public health before he came to his calling.