Thread by @JacquiMckenzie6

1/7 To help me write my autobiography, Conservative Campaign HQs prepared 4 pages of a dossier on me, my cases & membership of organisations, & sent it to the Sunday Sun, Express, Mail & Telegraph; A couple kindly sent me the dossier. What was interesting about it, is that over

2/7 90% of my work for the past 5 years has been in response to the government's mismanagement of the Windrush Scandal. CCHQ missed this! That said, they did find a deport case of a man with a serious conviction, but didn't say they've just paid him damages, that he'd been in the

3/7 UK since the age of 9 & that Priti Patel MP had negotiated with the Jamaican government not to remove anyone who'd been in the UK before the age of 10, for a deport charter. They did find that I'm a trustee of Detention Action & on Labour's working group looking at racial

4/7 disparities with a view to looking at what issues need addressing. They didn't recall that the Conservatives undertook a similar exercise under Lord Dr Tony Sewell. Oddly, their researchers didn't find that I was on the Windrush Working Group set up by Priti Patel MP, or that

5/7 I was an independent advisor to the Windrush Lessons Learned Review set up by Sajid Javid MP. If they'd looked beyond their agenda, they might have found that I'm a serial committee member & organiser, be it on the PTA, the school governing body or a little supplementary

6/7 education project I set up in 2008.
Thank you for your overwhelming support yesterday. It was widespread & across the spectrum. And yes, despite the sinister intent, there was some moments of humour, not least that interview on LBC. I'm a lawyer. My role is to ensure that

7/7 my client's are adequately represented & on that, there's no compromise. CCHQ's move was nasty, with racist overtones; It will, as it is designed to, cause hate. But the response is reassuring. Most people in the UK are fair, decent & able to distinguish fact from mischief.