actually, thejourney we ve been on has been quite incredible. i m sure we will touch upon that later but i would say, i still think i ve got the hardest job in british politics but i think humza yousaf is catching up with me. yeah, well, we will talk about him and his problems injust a second. but you in a sense, as i said, were simply going into the family business. this was something you d prepared your whole life for. your father was notjust an mp but a powerful and successful figure in scotland. do you feel as you grew up that this is what you were expected to do and almost certainly would do? it s interesting because i always recoiled at the thought of standing for politics. i think my father wanted me to go into politics, if i m honest with you. when i was a teenager and i recall when he asked whether i would go into politics and i was studying and i said, no chance, i m not going to stand for politics. he didn t speak to me for six months because he obviously wanted me to go and
pointed to her head, with the message in cut out letters saying, bang, bang, that s all it takes. and it was a message from an organisation called combat 18 at that time, which was a far right organisation that didn t want to see the election of britain s first muslim mp and that was part of a really deliberate attempt to intimidate my family. that really made me want to recoil from the politics, i didn t want to put my own children through that. but interestingly, i decided to go into politics not because of my father, actually, but because of my mother. people often think that my dad s the driving force for my politics. actually, i don t get my politics from my dad, i get my politics from my mum. because? because i always remember throughout all that difficult period, through all the hell that my father was going through, that we were going through as kids, my mum was the constant and the rock through all of that. i remember her always saying, we don t walk away, we don t give up
you do the other parts? actually, thejourney we ve been on has been quite incredible. i m sure we will touch upon that later but i would say, i still think i ve got the hardest job in british politics but i think humza yousaf is catching up with me. yeah, well, we will talk about him and his problems injust a second. but you in a sense, as i said, were simply going into the family business. this was something you d prepared your whole life for. your father was notjust an mp but a powerful and successful figure in scotland. do you feel as you grew up that this is what you were expected to do and almost certainly would do? it s interesting because i always recoiled at the thought of standing for politics. i think my father wanted me to go into politics, if i m honest with you. when i was a teenager and i recall when he asked whether i would go into politics and i was studying and i said, no chance, i m not going to stand for politics. he didn t speak to me for six months because he obvio
a huge loneliness and dislocation. fauci and walensky are being demonize d in a way that st wrong. they were trying to do the bes t g they could. abe, is that is that good enough? i mean european countries,nt certain european countriesries, really didn t ever shut down. but we had so mao many mostlyseh democrat run states, of course, that kepatt it going and going and going. and now the victims are children. yeah. and to say that this is because of covid is just completel i dy disingenuous. you know, i m i m from the hood in new orleans, louisianeen met, there have been metal detectors on the public schools in the themborhoods long before the inability to have textbooks and utilizing me. classes happened long before exc code, but it s just a convenient excuse. what we re literally reeling fromg from is, unfortunately, a design plan that utilizeducat educatioion create as just a pu1 state. in 1972, the international97 child of the future, where reading, writing and arithmetic
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