Shabana Mahmood

Shabana Mahmood (17 September 1980)[2]  is a British Labour Party politician and barrister,[3] [4]  who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) forBirmingham, Ladywood since the May 2010 general election.[5]



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[hide]  *1 Early life  ==Early life[ edit] == Mahmood was born and raised in Birmingham[3] [4]  and is the daughter of the Birmingham Labour Party's chairman.[3]  Her family roots are from Mirpur, Azad Kashmir as stated on her own personal webpage.[6]  She graduated from Lincoln College, Oxford, where she studied law and was the president of the Junior Common Room.[7] ==Parliamentary career<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">Mahmood, Rushanara Ali and Yasmin Qureshi, elected at the same time, are the United Kingdom's first female Muslim MPs.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-first_3-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]
 * 2 Parliamentary career
 * 3 References
 * 4 External links

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">She supported a revocation of the ban on the wearing of niqabs at Birmingham Metropolitan College.