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Khan is the first gay Muslim MP to be elected [Imran Ahmad Khan/Twitter] |
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Bhatti is a chartered accountant [Saqib Bhatti/Twitter] |
The Muslim Conservative MPs who kept their seats:
New Muslim Labour MPs
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Begum is the fierce critic of Islamophobia [Getty] |
Begum won Poplar & Limehouse with 38,660 votes (68 percent of vote) and has gone on to become the first hijab-wearing Member of Parliament.
Begum is a fierce critic of Islamophobia and antisemitism, and recently met with historian David J Rosenberg to discuss "Limehouse's great history of different communities uniting together in solidarity against antisemitism, Islamophobia, LGBT+ hate".
She was elected for the first time in her constituency, succeeding MP Jim Fitzpatrick.
Raised locally, Begum's campaign emphasised worker's rights, education, migrant’s rights, healthcare, and opposing wars abroad.
During the elections Begum was endorsed by Labour's Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott:
"I am delighted that Apsana - a young working class Bengali woman - has put herself forward to represent the seat where she was born and has lived all her life."
"Apsana has a strong record in fighting against the Tories' austerity agenda – standing up for young people, women and ethnic minorities in particular."
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The response to injustice, she said, is socialism [Twitter] |
Zarah Sultana won Coventry South with 19,544 votes and a one per cent winning margin over the Conservative Party’s Mattie Heaven.
Sultana exploded onto the political stage early on in the race after a social media row following her posts about the Middle East when she was at Birmingham University, including one in which she said she would "celebrate" the death of Tony Blair.
In her acceptance speech, the 26-year-old, who once worked for the West Midlands Labour Party office, pledged to have "an unashamed commitment to take on the privileged few, and transform society in the interests of the many…"
"As a working-class Muslim woman, I feel the threats posed by a resurgent hard right Tory Party. But our movement has before and will again, beat back the forces of hate, division and austerity that have decimated our communities.
"The response to injustice is, and always will be, socialism," she added.
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Ali won in a landslide victory [Getty] |
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