British Asian Politicians - Keith Vaz, Jonathan Sayeed, Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed, Jan Jananayagam, Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin, Shahid Malik (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 209. Not illustrated. Chapters: Keith Vaz, Jonathan Sayeed, Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed, Jan Jananayagam, Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin, Shahid Malik, Ajmal Masroor, Piara Khabra, Waheed Alli, Baron Alli, Sadiq Khan, Zerbanoo Gifford, Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi, Mohammad Sarwar, Mohammad Naseem, Salma Yaqoob, Virendra Sharma, Parmjit Dhanda, Khalid Mahmood, Nirj Deva, Rushanara Ali, Sonika Nirwal, Shailesh Vara, Sajjad Karim, Lutfur Rahman, Syed Kamall, Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria, Neena Gill, Ashok Kumar, Priti Patel, Shapurji Saklatvala, Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, Claude Moraes, Parmjit Singh Gill, Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya, Norsheen Bhatti, Bashir Maan, Osama Saeed, Pav Akhtar, Navnit Dholakia, Baron Dholakia, Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar, Mancherjee Bhownagree, Anas Sarwar, Shreela Flather, Baroness Flather, Marsha Singh, Amir Bhatia, Baron Bhatia, Raj Bagri, Baron Bagri, British Asians in Politics of the United Kingdom, Sandip Verma, Baroness Verma. Excerpt: Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz (born 26 November 1956) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Leicester East since 1987, and has been the Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee since July 2007. He was appointed as a member of the Privy Council in June 2006. Keith Vaz was born in 1956 in Aden, Yemen, to Indian parents. He moved to Bradford in England with his family in 1965. He was educated at Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith followed by Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied law and obtained a BA (1979), MA (1987), MCFI(1988). Vaz worked as a solicitor for a number of years, including for Richmond Council (1982); as senior solicitor for the London Borough of Islington (19821985); and as solicitor at Highfields and Belgrave Law Centre in Leicester (19851987).He and his wife Maria have two ch...