Rosena Allin-Khan

Rosena Allin-Khan
MP
Member of Parliament
for Tooting
Assumed office
17 June 2016
Preceded by Sadiq Khan
Majority 6,357 (19.8%)
Personal details
Born 1977 (age 38–39)[1][2]
London, England, UK
Political party Labour
Alma mater Brunel University
University of Cambridge
Website Official website

Rosena Allin-Khan (born 1977)[1][2] is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting since 17 June 2016. She won the seat at the 2016 by-election,[3] filling the vacancy caused by the resignation of Sadiq Khan after his election in May 2016 as Mayor of London.[4][5] Allin-Khan is also the Shadow Minister for Sport, a post she has held since October 2016.[6]

Early life and education

Allin-Khan was born in Tooting. Her Polish mother had been a singer in the Polish girl-band Filipinki, who met her father, originally from Pakistan, while the band was on tour in London.[7] The couple separated after having two children, and Allin-Khan's mother worked three jobs to support Rosena and her brother.[7]

She was educated at Trinity St Mary School,[8][5] a local comprehensive.[7] She wanted to be a doctor, but could not afford medical school, so she took a degree in medical biochemistry at Brunel University in London, funding her education through a series of part-time jobs.[7]

After further studies funded by scholarships, she was accepted at the age of 24 to study medicine at Cambridge University.[7]

Medical career

After qualifying as a doctor,[9] Allin-Khan worked at the Royal London and Homerton Hospitals.[7]

Prior to her election to Parliament, she worked as a junior doctor in the accident and emergency department[8] at St George's Hospital in Tooting.[7]

Political career

Allin-Khan was a councillor on Wandsworth Council for Bedford ward in Balham, and served as deputy leader of the Council's Labour group.[7]

Allin-Khan was selected as the Labour candidate for the Tooting constituency after the seat was vacated in May 2016 by the sitting MP, Sadiq Khan, who won that year's London mayoral election.[10] Allin-Khan won her seat in the House of Commons with a swing of 7.3% from the Conservatives, after a campaign which stressed her working-class roots and Polish-Pakistani heritage.[11] When the election results were announced in the early hours of 17 June, Allin-Khan dropped her planned victory speech; in its place she read a tribute to Jo Cox, the Labour MP who had been violently killed on 16 June, the day of the by-election.[12][13]

On 9 October 2016 she was appointed Shadow Minister for Sport.[6]

Personal life

Allin-Khan lives in Tooting with her Welsh husband[7] and two daughters.[8][5][11] She is a Muslim,[7] and her husband converted to Islam.[11] Their two children are being raised as Muslims.[11]

She is an amateur boxer, training at Balham Boxing Club, where she is also the team doctor.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 "Person Details for Rosena Chantelle Wisniewska-Khan, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008" — FamilySearch.org". web.archive.org. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Person Details for Rosena Chantelle Khan, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008" — FamilySearch.org". web.archive.org. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  3. ↑ "Labour's Rosena Allin-Khan wins Tooting by-election". BBC News. 17 June 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  4. ↑ Hannah Al-Othman (14 May 2016). "Labour selects junior doctor Rosena Allin-Khan to contest Tooting by-election". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  5. 1 2 3 "Tooting by-election: Dr Rosena Allin-Khan chosen by Labour in battle to secure Sadiq Khan's former seat". City A.M. 7 October 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  6. 1 2 http://myparliament.info/member/4573
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Dr Rosena Allin-Khan on why she's a knock-out choice for Tooting MP". London Evening Standard. 20 May 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  8. 1 2 3 Damien Gayle. "Junior A&E doctor selected as Labour candidate for Tooting". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  9. ↑ "Rosena Allin-Khan". Uk.linkedin.com. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  10. ↑ Gayle, Damien (14 May 2016). "Junior A&E doctor selected as Labour candidate for Tooting". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  11. 1 2 3 4 Quinn, Ben (17 June 2016). "Labour's Rosena Allin-Khan holds Tooting in byelection". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  12. ↑ Dan Bloom (17 June 2016). "Tooting by-election winner Rosena Allin-Khan pays emotional tribute to Jo Cox". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  13. ↑ "Labour's Rosena Allin-Khan wins Tooting by-election". Daily Telegraph. 17 June 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
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