but i know it to be true. and the reason why i recoiled from going into politics is you mentioned him being britain's first muslim mp and actually that came out a sacrifice. it came at a sacrifice for my mum, it came as a sacrifice for us as kids, and we lived through controversy. we lived through people being at our doorstep, in terms of whether that's press or indeed whether that's threats or abuse, and we lived with the fear of headlines, in terms of some of the dangers. there's a particularly shocking story about when you were 12, you come down the stairs and you see something on the mat at the front door? i suppose that's probably my first introduction to politics, is being a 12—year—old and going to school and seeing what looked like a strange envelope on our doorstep. rather naively, picking it up, rather naively, opening it and when i opened it, it was a picture mocked up of my mum tied to a chair with two guns