Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi arrived in 2017 as the first turban wearing Sikh to sit in the Commons, and for a while that was the line in every profile. Then came the afternoon that fixed him in the public memory. In 2019, at Boris Johnson's first Prime Minister's Questions, Dhesi stood and demanded that Johnson apologise for having written the year before that women in burqas looked like letterboxes and bank robbers. He asked, to a swell of applause across the benches, whether Johnson understood that for people who wear religious dress the price of those words was counted in hate crimes, and spoke of being called towel head and Taliban himself. Johnson did not apologise. Dhesi has since built a serious defence brief and is among the more diligent attenders in the House. Verdict: the moment was real, and so has been most of the work since.