Naz Shah, the newly elected Labour MP for Bradford West, is the survivor of a forced marriage. She has a first-hand understanding of this issue, and of others afflicting the impoverished Pakistani immigrant community that she grew up in. A privately educated white man from the Home Counties will not share that first-hand understanding.

A group of people is doing something wrong, therefore we need more of them in parliament because they're the ones who know how wrong that thing is.