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Sayeeda Warsi

The Right Honourable
The Baroness Warsi
PC
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Senior Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
In office
4 September 2012 – 5 August 2014
Prime Minister David Cameron
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by The Baroness Anelay of St John's (Minister of State)
Minister of State for Faith and Communities
In office
4 September 2012 – 5 August 2014
Prime Minister David Cameron
Preceded by Hazel Blears (2009)
Succeeded by Eric Pickles (Faith)
Chairman of the Conservative Party
In office
12 May 2010 – 4 September 2012
Served with The Lord Feldman of Elstree
Leader David Cameron
Preceded by Eric Pickles
Succeeded by Grant Shapps
Minister without Portfolio
In office
12 May 2010 – 4 September 2012
Leader David Cameron
Preceded by Hazel Blears 2007)
Succeeded by Ken Clarke
Grant Shapps
Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion and Social Action
In office
2 July 2007 – 11 May 2010
Leader David Cameron
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by Position abolished
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
15 October 2007
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born (1971-03-28) 28 March 1971 (age 46)
Dewsbury, England, United Kingdom
Political party Conservative
Alma mater Kirklees College
University of Leeds
University of Law
Religion Islam

Sayeeda Hussain Warsi, Baroness Warsi, PC (Urdu: سعیده حسین وارثی‎, born 28 March 1971) is a British lawyer, politician and member of the House of Lords. From 2010 to 2012, she was co-Chair of the Conservative Party. She served in David Cameron's Cabinet, first as the Minister without portfolio between 2010 and 2012, then as the Senior Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Office and as the Minister of State for Faith and Communities, until her resignation citing her disagreement with the Government's policy on the Israel–Gaza conflict in August 2014.

Warsi grew up in a family of Pakistani immigrants living in West Yorkshire. She studied as a solicitor at University of Leeds and the Crown Prosecution Service. In 2004, she gave up her job as a solicitor to stand, unsuccessfully, for election to Parliament. After being raised to the peerage in 2007, Warsi served as Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion and Social Action. The first female Muslim to attend Cabinet, Lady Warsi came to further prominence when, at her first meeting in Downing Street, she wore a traditional South Asian shalwar kameez.


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