Mohammed Afzal Khan (politician)

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Mohammed Afzal Khan

Mohammed Afzal Khan CBE MP (* 5. April 1958 in Jhelam , Pakistan ) is a British politician of the Labor Party . He has been a Member of the House of Commons since 2017.

Life

At the age of eleven, Khan came to England with his family and grew up in Lancashire . After dropping out of school early and various jobs, he was a police officer in the Manchester area for three years. He then studied law and became a solicitor .

He has been a member of Manchester City Council since 2000 . He served as the deputy general secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain . He became Mayor of Manchester in 2005 and remained in office until 2006. In 2008, Khan was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his contributions to interfaith relations and local politics in Manchester . Khan has been a member of the European Parliament since June 2014 . There he is vice chairman of the subcommittee on security and defense as well as a member of the committee on foreign affairs and a member of the delegation for relations with the Arabian Peninsula. Khan is married and has three children.

In the by-election to the British House of Commons in the Manchester Gorton constituency, Khan wanted to run for the Labor Party, but after the decision to hold early general elections in June 2017 , the by-election was canceled. In the early general election, Khan was also a candidate for the Labor Party. He won the Manchester Gorton constituency and was able to expand the majority of his late predecessor Sir Gerald Kaufman .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 58729, HMSO, London, June 13, 2008, p. 7 ( PDF , accessed April 6, 2017, English).
  2. ↑ a b Election results 2017: Labor wins Bury North. BBC News , June 9, 2017, accessed June 11, 2017 .
  3. ^ The Guardian: My work space
  4. ^ Afzal Khan to stand for Labor in Manchester Gorton by election. BBC News , March 23, 2017, accessed April 6, 2017 .
  5. ^ Manchester Gorton by election canceled because of general election. BBC News, April 19, 2017, accessed April 22, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Khan, Mohammed Afzal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Labor Party politician, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Jhelam , Pakistan