Sanna Marin became the world’s youngest Prime Minister of Finland at just 34, but faced a barrage of criticism. She tells Charlotte Lytton about the highs and lows of her life in politics

My preoccupations at 16 were, I think, twofold. Firstly, passing my exams to get to university. I was really, really focused on that. But secondly, it was round about that age that I started to get re

When I was 16, I was right in the middle of my tidying research. Every day after school, I would go around tidying the entire house. I was constantly thinking about things like “How can I maintain a t

I was very earnest as a teenager. I’d like to think that wasn’t at the expense of joy, but I felt a huge burden of responsibility. I was a member of a faith community, raised in the LDS church, what p

T here is a low-level hum that forms the soundtrack to many women’s lives. It’s a conditioning. The silent expectation to be the architect of everyone’s day, managing the moods of daily life. Being th

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