New Statesman · 23 September 2016

In September 2016 Julia Rampen of the New Statesman joined me at Troia, my restaurant tucked behind the London Eye, which over the years has become a regular haunt for politicians from every party.

We talked about how I came to Britain in the 1990s as a teenager from a Kurdish refugee family who could barely speak English, how I built my businesses, and why I intended to stand for Parliament at the next election.

Labour was in the middle of its leadership contest at the time, so I offered a light-hearted peace deal: free pudding for Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith if they made up.

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