One Sunday morning just after the 2010 election, Parmjit Dhanda, who had just been deposed as MP for Gloucester, had a knock on his door. A frightened lady was on his doorstep with her dog trying to pull away from her towards something in his driveway. The thing in question was a decapitated pig's head.
"After nine years' service," notes the blurb for his new book, My Political Race, "people didn't even realise [he] was actually a Sikh and not a Muslim."
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