“In 1983, having fought with my stepfather, I spent a night beneath the stars. Having run away from Yorkshire to London with a few pounds I’d saved working, I slept in a bed and breakfast but soon ran
“Hilariously, I was conceived at a Communist Party conference in Morecambe. When I was born Mum was still only 18, Dad 22. They soon separated and Mum and I endured a few years of poverty and homeless