Apsana Begum | |
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![]() Official portrait, 2024 | |
Member of Parliament for Poplar and Limehouse | |
Assumed office 12 December 2019 | |
Preceded by | Jim Fitzpatrick |
Majority | 12,560 (29.2%) |
Personal details | |
Born | Shadwell, London, England | 25 May 1990
Political party | Independent |
Other political affiliations | Labour Party (2019–2024; suspended and whip withdrawn) Socialist Campaign Group (2019–present) |
Spouse |
Ehtashamul Haque
(m. 2013; div. 2015) |
Alma mater | Queen Mary University of London SOAS University of London |
Profession | Politician |
Website | Official website |
Apsana Begum (born 25 May 1990) is a British independent, formerly Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Poplar and Limehouse since 2019. Begum had the whip withdrawn for six months on 23 July 2024 after she voted for a Scottish National Party amendment to scrap the two child benefit cap.[1]
Begum is a member of the left-wing Socialist Campaign Group of MPs.[2] She is the UK's first MP to wear a hijab,[3][4] and is a member of Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East.[5]