'I waited so long to speak out. This was the final straw'

'For someone who has waited so long to speak out, it became abundantly clear on Thursday what I had to do.

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There was Nigel Farage holding a press conference on live television, responding to racism allegations from his teenage years by lambasting the BBC and ITV for giving airtime in the 1970s to the comedian Bernard Manning and the fictional character Alf Garnett.

As a Christian, I could not help but see it as the most disingenuous example of the phrase "let he who is without sin cast the first stone".

It was also the final straw.

My late parents were born in Nigeria and came to the UK in the 1950s. My parents came to serve, as is so typical of immigrants from the Commonwealth at the time.

My mum had to undergo "further" training as a nurse despite having already practised as a nurse in Nigeria, while my dad qualified as an osteopath. They both in effect came over here to participate in creating a healthy nation.