“That’s the Iceland where my mum used to know the price of everything.”Faiza is the local Labour candidate within a heartbeat of unseating the former leader of the Conservative Party Iain Duncan Smith. “Mum was a classic front-of-the-Mirror story on a trolley,” Faiza says, her voice catching. “My dad left for a while, the house didn’t really have any heating, it was really atrocious, my mum was on benefits. “When mum was growing up in Pakistan, she went on hunger strike to stay in education,” Faiza says. Faiza says it’s her mum who was the fighter, but Faiza too has been fighting her whole life.

Source: Daily Mirror December 10, 2019 17:48 UTC