Nicola Horlick has often been described as a “superwoman”. She juggled six children with a successful City career in a male-dominated industry and wrote a book, Can You Have It All?, while nursing her eldest daughter, Georgie, through leukaemia before she died at the age of 12. Yet she says: “I don’t regard myself as a superwoman. I had a large number of children and a high-powered job, but I also had a nanny and a housekeeper. The superwoman is the single mum living at the top of a block of flats with small kids and no lift doing night shifts.”

Now she is standing as a Liberal Democrat candidate at the general election. “Like a lot of people I’ve been sitting in