Tulip Siddiq
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Tulip Siddiq MP FRSA |
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Member of Parliament for Hampstead and Kilburn |
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Assumed office 7 May 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Glenda Jackson |
| Majority | 1,138 (2.1%) |
| Member of the Camden London Borough Council for Regent's Park |
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In office 6 May 2010 – 22 May 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Theodore Blackwell |
| Succeeded by | Nadia Shah |
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Tulip Rizwana Siddiq 16 September 1982 Mitcham, London, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Christian Percy (m. 2013) |
| Relations | See Sheikh–Wazed family |
| Alma mater |
King's College London University College London |
| Religion | Sunni Muslim |
| Website | Official website |
Tulip Rizwana Siddiq, FRSA (Bengali: টিউলিপ রেজওয়ানা সিদ্দীক; born 16 September 1982) is a British Labour Party politician. Part of the Bangladeshi politically prominent Sheikh–Wazed family, she is the granddaughter of the first President of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and the niece of current Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina. Siddiq was elected Member of Parliament for Hampstead and Kilburn at the 2015 general election.
Siddiq is vice-chairwoman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism and a member of the Women and Equalities Select Committee. She was previously a councillor for Regent's Park and Cabinet Member for Culture and Communities in Camden Council.
Siddiq is the eldest daughter and second eldest among three children of Shafiq Siddiq, who was an academic and university economics professor before a stroke left him disabled, and Sheikh Rehana, who gained political asylum as a teenager. They met when Shafiq Siddiq was studying for a PhD and they married in Kilburn in 1970.
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