The general election campaign was the hardest thing I had done.
Harder than the shareholder meeting during the Pryce scandal. Harder than the Conrad Sorel situation. Harder, in some ways, than the hospital room with Killian because at least that had been clear, a known thing that I knew how to hold.
A campaign is many things at once. It is public and it is personal and it is relentless in a way that I had been told about and that I still underestimated. It is early mornings and late nights and the particular vulnerability of having your full biography examined by people who are looking for something wrong with it.
My biography had some genuinely complex sections. The twins. The pregnancy. The corporate sabotage and the threats. All of it was public record from the Finance Chronicle inte
