Mr Javid was one of a family of seven who grew up above a shop in Bristol

Yesterday Sajid Javid revealed his pain at the Windrush scandal. “I thought that could be my mum,” he said in an interview. “My dad … my uncle … it could be me.”

Mr Javid’s parents came to the UK from Pakistan rather than the Caribbean, but his quick climb from humble beginnings to adult success is a story shared by many children of the Windrush generation.

Born in Rochdale in 1969, he grew up above a shop in Bristol with two bedrooms for a family of seven. His father was a bus driver who arrived in the 1960s with £1 in his pocket. “I shared a room with my parents; there were two double beds, I was with one of my siblings, and