‘It’s been a massive day for my family,” I announced on Twitter last week. “One of us finished uni, one of us had our book next to Queen Obama and the other @Mohamed_Y_Ali went and got himself selected as a Tory candidate. Shout out to our refugee families who made us the men and women we are today.”

You would expect these achievements would be greeted with cheers and joy, seeing they were firsts for members of my family, who are all either refugees or the children of refugees.

My brother is now the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Cardiff North, and it was my new book, What We’re Told Not to Talk About (But We’re Going to Anyway), that I discovered on display next to