My first memory of Lucy Powell is from some time in 1993. A force of nature in baggy jeans and a vest top, she was 18 years old, and most likely berating someone in authority for some injustice with the crowd already on her side. We were both students at Oxford University, and rather like another Iron Lady, Lucy was in her first year at Somerville College. Liz Truss was a fellow student. Jacob Rees-Mogg could be seen stalking the corridors in Victorian fancy dress, as if it were actually 1893.