Qurban Hussain, Baron Hussain

Qurban Hussain, Baron Hussain (Potwari: قربان حسین; born 27 March 1956) is a British–Pakistani Liberal Democrat politician and life peer.[1]

The Right Honourable
The Lord Hussain
قربان حسین
Hussain in 2018
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
25 January 2011
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born
Qurban Hussain

(1956-03-27) 27 March 1956
Kotli District, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan
NationalityBritish
Political partyLiberal Democrat (since 2003)
Other political
affiliations		Labour (1996–2003)
OccupationPolitician

Early life

Hussain was born on 27 March 1956 to a Pahari Muslim family in Kotli, Mirpur District, Pakistan.

Career

Hussain was the unsuccessful candidate for parliament for Luton South in 2005 and 2010. He was firstly a member of the Labour Party, from 1996 to 2003, but then joined the Liberal Democrats in protest over the Labour government-backed invasion of Iraq.[2] He was a member of Luton Borough Council from 2003 until 2011, serving as its deputy leader from 2005 to 2007.

Hussain was created a life peer as Baron Hussain, of Luton in the county of Bedfordshire on 20 January 2011.[3] In the Cameron–Clegg coalition government, he served as diversity adviser to Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. Hussain briefly withdrew from the Lib Dem whip in March 2015 for having smuggled an impoverished two-year-old Kashmiri boy into the UK decades earlier, at the request of the boy's mother. He admitted to having committed an offence but insisted it was morally the right thing to do.[4] He was later readmitted to the party whip.[5]

References
  1. "The story of two Pakistani-origin Lords - The Express Tribune". 25 November 2010. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
  2. Barkham, Patrick (28 April 2003). "I couldn't ask for votes as Iraq was being bombed". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  3. "No. 59680". The London Gazette. 25 January 2011. p. 1161.
  4. Drake, Matthew (21 March 2015). "Lib Dem peer investigated for smuggling Pakistani boy into UK". mirror. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  5. "The Lord Hussain - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament". members.parliament.uk. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
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