Rushanara Ali - Parliamentary Career

Parliamentary Career

In April 2007, Ali was chosen as the Labour Party's prospective Parliamentary candidate for Bethnal Green and Bow, and on 6 May 2010, was elected as a Member of Parliament with a majority of 11,574 votes. She is the first person of Bangladeshi origin to have been elected to the House of Commons and along with Shabana Mahmood and Yasmin Qureshi, became one of the United Kingdom's first female Muslim MPs. On 5th February 2013 she voted in favour in the House of Commons Second Reading vote on marriage equality in Britain.