Background
Hossain was born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. She is of mixed Bangladeshi and English descent, her father was Dr Tabarek Hossain (1935–2002), originally from Bangladesh, who migrated to Britain in the 1960s, was a psychiatrist who specialised in alcoholism, he set up the Kirklees Alcohol Advisory Service in 1973 at the town centre, and was the founder and president of Concern For Mental Health in West Yorkshire. Her father married an English nurse, Pamela from Nottingham. Of her Bangladeshi parentage, she states that she has never visited Bangladesh, does not speak Bengali and does not cook curry, and that while her father never discussed religion, Hossain and her younger sister Rezina “were nominally Muslim"
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