Ash Sarkar: “I wasn’t smart enough to listen when I was younger”

Ash Sarkar's debut book, Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War , is out now.

She argues that the British left is losing and that the political right has turned the working majority against itself.

The left’s increasing sensitivity to perceived harm is a function of concept creep, she says.

Ash Sarkar is perhaps the most prominent figure on what remains of the Corbynite left.

She is related to Pritilata Waddedar , an Indian revolutionary, and her great-great-aunt was a terrorist.

As a teenager, she used to bunk off school to go to anti-war protests.

Her biggest break came when she faced down Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain .