Warsi becomes UK’s first Muslim woman minister

GK NEWS NETWORK

London, May 13: Baroness Sayeeda Warsi has been announced as the Conservative Party’s chairwoman, becoming the first Muslim woman to be a part of the British Cabinet.
 Baroness Warsi said, after being named as a Cabinet minister in Britain’s new government, she was proud of being “from working class, of Muslim faith and of Pakistani background.”
 Baroness Warsi was born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire in 1971 to Pakistani parents who emigrated from (Bawal) Gujar Khan, Pakistan. She was educated at Birkdale High School, Dewsbury College, and the University of Leeds where she read Law (LLB). She attended the York College of Law to complete her Legal Practice Course and trained with both the Crown Prosecution Service and the Home Office Immigration Department.
 After qualifying as a Solicitor, she worked for John Whitfield, the last Conservative Member of Parliament for Dewsbury at Whitfield Hallam Goodall Solicitors and then set up her own specialist practice George Warsi Solicitors in Dewsbury. She has also worked overseas for the Ministry of Law in Pakistan and in Kashmir as Chairman of the Savayra Foundation, a women’s empowerment charity.
 She becomes a minister in the British Cabinet without a portfolio.
 Warsi was the Conservative Party parliamentary candidate for Dewsbury in the 2005 general elections, becoming the first Muslim woman to be selected by the Conservatives. She lost that election by nearly 5,000 votes.
 On July 2, 2007, Warsi was appointed as shadow minister for community cohesion and as a working peer. Her peerage was conferred as Baroness Warsi of Dewsbury in the county of West Yorkshire. She is the youngest member of the House of Lords.

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