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Welcome to the Restis Politics leading with me, Rory Stewart.

And me, Alastair. And we are with Nas Shah.

So before we get going, a content warning. What we're about to discuss in terms of

NAS's own personal life includes references to sexual abuse, violence, rape, murder. And if you are a listener who is concerned

with these issues, please be aware of that content if you choose to continue to listen

to this program.

Nas Shah is the Labour MP for Bradford West in Yorkshire, but that is a single fact behind which lies a pretty

remarkable backstory. It's really hard to know where to start. Let me just sort of a few thoughts

off the top of my head. One of your earliest memories was the sight and sound of your father

beating your mother, a father who then left the family for a 16-year-old next-door neighbor.

A mother then into another abusive relationship with somebody you knew as Uncle Azam,

who was raping your mother and allowing other men to rape her.

Age 12 sent to Pakistan, not long thereafter, a forced marriage, and in a way then came back because your mother

was first suspected of and then convicted of murder because she poisoned the man that had been

abusing her, your so-called uncle, Azam. And in a way, that became your first taste of politics,

because it was where you saw the system working against your mother being of the class that she

was, the race she was, etc. And now in your political career as a Labour MP,

covered to Parliament via a vicious, brutal, dirty battle

with the vicious, brutal George Galloway,

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