Lord Ahmed
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The Right Honourable The Lord Ahmed |
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| Lord Temporal | |
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Assumed office 13 October 1998 |
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| Born |
24 April 1957 Mirpur, Pakistan |
| Nationality | Pakistan |
| Political party | Non-affiliated |
| Spouse(s) | Sakina Bibi |
| Alma mater | Sheffield Polytechnic |
| Occupation | Property development and management |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed (born 24 April 1957) is a member of the British House of Lords. He was appointed on the recommendation of Prime Minister Tony Blair in 1998. Many of his political activities relate to the Muslim community both in the UK and abroad.
Ahmed was a member of the Labour Party for most of his career. In 2013, Ahmed was suspended from the party following allegations of antisemitism. It was reported that he blamed a Jewish conspiracy for a prison sentence he received following a fatal motorway crash. He resigned from the Labour Party later in the year.
Ahmed was born in Azad Kashmir on 24 April 1957 to Haji Sain Mohammed and Rashim Bibi. His parents moved the family to the UK when he was 11 and he has lived in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, since his childhood. He attended Spurley Hey Comprehensive School, then Thomas Rotherham Sixth Form College. He studied for a degree in Public Administration at Sheffield Polytechnic and joined the Labour Party when he was 18 years old.
In 1990 Ahmed began his political career as a local Labour Party councillor, becoming the chair of the South Yorkshire Labour Party in 1993 and holding both positions until 2000. He founded the British Muslim Councillors' Forum and was a Justice of the Peace between 1992 and 2000. He was both the first Asian councillor of Rotherham and the town's youngest magistrate.
Ahmed was appointed to the House of Lords having been created a life peer as Baron Ahmed, of Rotherham in the County of South Yorkshire on 3 August 1998. Although there have been many claims that he was the first Muslim life peer, including by Ahmed himself, or the first male Muslim peer, he was in fact the third Muslim life peer; the other two, Baroness Uddin and Lord Alli, were raised to the Peerage on 18 July whereas Lord Ahmed was so raised on 3 August. There have been earlier Muslim hereditary peers, the first being the 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley.
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