Paul Uppal
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Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South West |
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In office 6 May 2010 – 30 March 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Rob Marris |
| Succeeded by | Rob Marris |
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14 June 1967 Birmingham, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Kashmir Matto |
| Children | 3 |
| Residence | Birmingham |
| Alma mater | University of Warwick |
| Religion | Sikh |
| Website | pauluppal.co.uk |
Paul Singh Uppal (born 14 June 1967) is a Conservative Party politician from the United Kingdom. He was, for the parliament elected in the 2010 general election, the Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South West, having won the seat from the incumbent Labour Party MP Rob Marris, with 16,344 votes and a majority of 691.
He was narrowly defeated in the 2015 General Election, when Rob Marris regained the seat with a majority of 801.
Uppal was born in Birmingham, to Surjit Singh Uppal, a magistrate, and Balbir Kaur on 14 June 1967. His parents are Sikhs of East African descent. He attended Harborne Hill Comprehensive School and then studied three A levels in Politics, History and Sociology at Matthew Boulton College. He studied Politics and Sociology at the University of Warwick.
He married his wife Kashmir, a lawyer, on 17 November 1991 in Derby. They have three children together. He holds a season ticket for Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club, and is a trustee of the second largest Gurudwara (Sikh Temple) in Wolverhampton.
Uppal was selected as Conservative Party candidate for Birmingham Yardley less than three months before the 2005 general election. The seat was traditionally a Conservative-Labour marginal, but became a three-way marginal at the 1992 general election and a Labour-Liberal Democrat marginal since the 1997 general election, with the Conservatives pushed into an increasingly distant third place. Uppal came third in 2005, winning 2,970 votes, with Liberal Democrat John Hemming replacing the retiring Labour MP Estelle Morris.
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