At the 2019 general election Faiza Shaheen came within 1,262 votes of a “Portillo moment”. The Labour left-winger had made it her mission to oust the former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith in Chingford and Wood Green – her home constituency – but fell just short. “The next few days, as I nursed a broken heart and tried to make sense of what happened, feelings of foolishness crept in. Who did I think I was to beat all the odds?” Shaheen recalls in her new memoir-polemic Know Your Place (out on 8 June). Her aim, she told me when we...