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First Lady: Cherie Blair on women’s leadership presence

Cherie Blair’s on-stage interview with CMI chief executive Ann Francke reveals a woman who is more heroine than the harridan the press made her out to be

When Cherie Blair was called to the Bar in 1976, women weren’t popular. “People would say to me, ‘Girls don’t do litigation because their voices aren’t suitable – they are too light, they don’t carry,’” she recalls. “Or, they’d say, ‘We don’t want a woman on this case – because the clients...

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