Rushanara Ali
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Rushanara Ali MP |
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Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | George Galloway |
| Majority | 24,317 (46%) |
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14 March 1975 Bishwanath, Bangladesh |
| Political party | Labour |
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Tower Hamlets College St John's College, Oxford |
| Website | Official website |
Rushanara Ali (Bengali: রুশনারা আলী; born 14 March 1975) is a British Labour Party politician and Associate Director of the Young Foundation, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bethnal Green and Bow since 2010. Previously Shadow Minister for International Development, in the 2013 Labour reshuffle, Ali joined the Shadow Education team. She resigned from the Labour frontbench to abstain on a House of Commons motion permitting military action against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Iraq in September 2014. She was re-elected in 2015 doubling her majority to 24,317 and earning 61% share of the vote.
Ali was born in Sylhet District, Bangladesh. With her family, Ali immigrated to the East End of London at the age of seven, where she attended Mulberry School for Girls and Tower Hamlets College. She grew up in Tower Hamlets where her father was a manual worker. The first in her family to go to university, Ali studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St John's College, Oxford.
Ali began her career as a research assistant to Michael Young, working on a project which paved the way for the establishment of Tower Hamlets Summer University, offering independent learning programmes for young people aged 11–25. She also helped to develop "Language Line", a national telephone interpreting service in over 100 languages. Between 1997–1999 she was also parliamentary assistant to Oona King, MP for Bethnal Green and Bow at the time.
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