article_snippet.sent: Mr Javid revealed in a speech to the Union of Jewish Students in 2014 that Mr Javid had experienced racism at school.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Javid said Mr Javid was called a 'Paki' by a classmate.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Javid said: 'I did what any cool, calm future Cabinet minister would do.
article_snippet.sent: And then Mr Javid hit me, and I hit Mr Javid back and things sort of went downhill from there.'
article_snippet.sent: Mr Javid, whose background is remarkably different to many of Mr Javid colleagues, has been tipped as a future Tory leader.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Javid parents came to Britain from Pakistan in 1961.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Javid father, Abdul-Ghani, worked in a cotton mill before getting a job as a bus conductor.