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Mayor of Tower Hamlets: 2010: 2014 (Crossed the floor in 2014) Created Tower Hamlets First: British Bangladeshi: Tower Hamlets First: 2014: 2015 Election court found corrupt or illegal practices and removed from office Aspire: 2022: Serving Labour: Rokhsana Fiaz: Mayor of Newham: 2018 Serving British Pakistani [35]
Fareena Alam – editor of British Muslim magazine Q News; [197] named Media Professional of the Year by Islamic Relief in 2005 and at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards in 2006 [198] Faris Kermani – film director based in the UK, now head of production company based in London, Crescent Films [199]
In the United Kingdom, the internal divisions of England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland each have a different system of local government. Please see below for the most appropriate article relating to mayors or their equivalent: Directly elected mayors in England and Wales; Mayors in England; Mayors in Northern Ireland; Mayors in Wales
The first three Muslim female MPs were elected. [12] All ethnic minority MPs were either Labour (15) or Conservative (11). [ 12 ] In October 2013, the UK Parliament reported that the number of ethnic minority MPs stood at 27, or 4.2% of the total.
Metro mayors participating in a meeting of the Mayoral Council for England, January 2025. In England, directly elected mayors are directly elected executive political leaders of some local government bodies, usually either local authorities (councils) or combined authorities. Mayors of the latter may be informally referred to as “metro mayors”.
In England (and the Commonwealth) the designated female consort of a mayor is usually styled Mayoress or occasionally Mrs Mayor and accompanies the mayor to civic functions. [3] [4] A female mayor is also called mayor, not, as sometimes erroneously called, "Lady Mayoress". A mayoress or Lady Mayoress is a female consort of a mayor or Lord Mayor ...
This is a list of the mayors and lord mayors of Birmingham in the West Midlands of England. Birmingham has had a mayor (and elected council) since 1838. The office was raised to the dignity of lord mayor when Queen Victoria issued letters patent on 3 June 1896. [1] By modern convention, the Lord Mayor stands for a year, and is installed into ...
Nasim Ali OBE – Labour Party politician, councillor in Regent's Park ward, Cabinet Member for Young People in Camden Council and former Mayor of Camden. In 2003, at the age of 34, he became UK's youngest mayor as well as the first Bangladeshi and first Muslim mayor. [100]