It gave me the release from the restraint needed to express the truth in a highly critical environment such as the Labour Party. The past year awaiting the release of the the documentary, I lived a life shrouded with secrecy and paranoia – it was a phone call from a fond friend Ahmed, encouraging me to record the tracks which led me to meeting the Palestinian-Jordanian rapper Maddeh-1. After years of feeling undermined, there was a stranger who believed in my truth and we recorded my first track. Knowing his family history and many others I met in Jordan, reignited my desire to visit Palestine, where I spent my summer prior to the release and concluded the ‘Free Labour’ EP with Palestinian producer Smokaholic – to unlearn everything I was forced to believe by the Party’s machine and the lobbies working within it, and most importantly to remind myself that the levels of anxiety, paranoia or personal sacrifice I may face, pails in comparison to the suffering and suffocation faced by the policies supported by our British government and our opposition.