Judith Kirton-Darling
Oliver Robertson talks to Judith Kirton-Darling
‘I remember when I was at QCEA I went to a meeting of the Council of Europe… and at dinner I was sitting at the table with a very elderly German lady and she asked where I was from. I said I was from the European Quakers and she burst into tears and she said “Quakers fed me after the war and I’ve never met another one since”. And I was just overwhelmed.’ Judith Kirton-Darling, prospective member of the European parliament for Labour in North East England, is speaking after a full day of campaigning. On a Sunday. Like Quakers, modern politics doesn’t really do times and seasons. ‘It’s a marathon. It’s kind of an endurance test,’ she says. If so, it’s clearly one she’s been trained for.
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