Qurban Hussain, Baron Hussain

Qurban Hussain, Baron Hussain

Qurban Hussain (* 27. March 1956 in Kashmir ) is a British entrepreneur , union functionary and politician of the Labor Party and now the Liberal Democrats , who since 2011 as a peer Life Member of the House of Lords is.

Life

Born in Kashmir, Hussain is an entrepreneur and co-owner of the housing and property management company BMQ Properties. After he was secretary of the trade union confederation Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Luton between 1994 and 1996 , he joined the Labor Party in 1996, but left it in 2003 to become a member of the Liberal Democrats.

Immediately after, he began his political career in local politics and was a candidate of the Liberal Democrats as a member of the city council elected by Luton, where he served since of 2003. After he had run unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons in the general election on May 5, 2005 in the constituency of Luton South , he served as vice chairman of the Luton City Council between 2005 and 2007.

In the 2009 European elections , he applied for a seat in the European Parliament for the Liberal Democrats , but was defeated. Also in the general election on May 6, 2010 , Hussain ran in the Luton South constituency again for a seat in the House of Commons, but after his electoral defeat against the constituency owner Margaret Moran again missed the entry into the House of Commons.

By a letters patent dated January 20, 2011, Hussain was raised to the nobility as a life peer with the title Baron Hussain , of Luton in the County of Bedfordshire . 25 January 2011 took place its introduction ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords . Lord Hussain is currently active as a member of the Advisory Board of Cranford College in the London Borough of Hounslow and as a member of the Board of Directors of the College of Central Bedfordshire in Dunstable .

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on November 10, 2012)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed November 10, 2012)
• Biography in Debrett’s (accessed on November 10, 2012)