Khalid Mahmood

Khalid Mahmood MP
Member of Parliament
for Birmingham Perry Barr
Incumbent
Assumed office 
7 June 2001
Preceded by Jeff Rooker
Majority 7,948 (20.4%)
Born 13 July 1961 (1961-07-13) (age 49)
Kashmir, Pakistan
Nationality British
Political party Labour
Alma mater UCE Birmingham
Religion Islam

Khalid Mahmood (born 13 July 1961) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Perry Barr since 2001.

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Political career

Mahmood is a graduate of UCE Birmingham and a former engineer with a trade union background. He was a Birmingham City Councillor from 1990–1992. Khalid Mahmood was forced to resigning his seat after the Labour Party faced allegations that Khalid Mahmood had deserted the city in 1992 and not attended any meetings council meetings, surgeries or other carried out any activities as a councillor but carried on claiming councillors allowances, when He had in fact left his wife and young children to live in Kuwait with a bank clerk - who was also his cousin and latter returned claiming her to be his wife under Islamic Law. But is in fact under Bristish law a Bigamist - The criminal offense of marrying one person while still legally married to another.[1]

In 2001, Mahmood was selected for the Perry Barr seat by an election of local Labour party members. In the election, over half the votes cast were postal votes, causing the Sandwell branch to pass a resolution of no confidence in Mahmood and organise a petition to Labour's National Executive Committee alleging "systematic abuse" of the postal ballot system.[2]

Though Khalid held the seat for Labour in the 2001 election, his share of the vote fell by 16.5%,[3] much of which went to the Liberal Democrat candidate Jon Hunt, who ran on an 'anti-sleaze' ticket. Mahmood subsequently increased his share of the vote slightly at the 2005 election, though his majority fell by 805 votes. He was again elected in 2010.[4]

Khalid rarely rebels against the labour party and voted in agreement with Tony Blair 93.1% of the time during the previous parliament.[5] He has voted strongly for the introduction of national ID cards, student top-up fees, anti-terrorism laws and he voted very strongly against investigating the Iraq war.[6]

He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Home Office Minister Tony McNulty from 10 November 2005 until 6 September 2006, when he resigned after signing a letter calling for Prime Minister Tony Blair to step down.[7]

The Five Myths Muslims Must Deny

In November 2001, an article was published under Mahmood's name supportive of the war in Afghanistan headlined The Five Myths Muslims Must Deny: "Our obligation," the article stated, "is to separate myth from reality, lies from truth and start making clear judgments on where we see our duty, responsibility and future."[8] A few days later, however, it was revealed that the Observer article had not in fact been written by Mahmood, but by Labour Friends of Israel Policy Council member and then Foreign Office minister, Denis MacShane; Mahmood agreed to put his name to the article after Lord Ahmed of Rotherham refused. Mahmood's actions were condemned by Inayat Bunglawala from the Muslim Council of Britain, who said: "MacShane then found Mahmood – universally regarded as being not exactly the brightest spark in parliament – to be a more willing instrument for his scheme."[8]

UK MP expenses row

In May 2009 it was revealed, as part of a series of leaked UK MPs expense details, that Mahmood claimed for £1,350 to stay in a five-star west London hotel with his girlfriend.[9] Mahmood also claimed more than £35,000 in expenses for food over the course of his eight years as an MP.[10]

References

  1. ^ Jonathan Walker and Paul Dale (5 May 2004). "Inquiry over 'absentee' councillor". Birmingham Post (IC Birmingham). http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/tm_objectid=14211057&method=full&siteid=50002&headline=inquiry-over--absentee--councillor-name_page.html. Retrieved 3 April 2010. 
  2. ^ Dale, Paul (20 March 2001). "Labour rebel may fight key seat". Birmingham Post (IC Birmingham). http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/archive/tm_method=full%26objectid=7571151%26siteid=50002-name_page.html. Retrieved 3 April 2010. 
  3. ^ "Birmingham Perry Barr 2001 Election Results". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/vote2001/results_constituencies/constituencies/059.stm. Retrieved 3 April 2010. 
  4. ^ Birmingham City Council: General Election 2010
  5. ^ [1]
  6. ^ "Khalid Mahmood". TheyWorkForYou. http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/khalid_mahmood/birmingham%2C_perry_barr. Retrieved 3 April 2010. 
  7. ^ "Blair hit by wave of resignations". BBC News. 6 September 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5319328.stm. Retrieved 3 April 2010. 
  8. ^ a b Bunglawala, Inayat (26 November 2008). "Supping with the devil - We're still discovering exactly how politicians and the media colluded to deceive us over Afghanistan and Iraq". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/26/iraqandthemedia-islam. Retrieved 26 November 2008. 
  9. ^ "Man behind expenses leak revealed". BBC News. 23 May 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8064731.stm. Retrieved 3 April 2010. 
  10. ^ Oldham (24 May 2009). "Expenses lovenest of Birmingham MP Khalid Mahmood". Sunday Mercury. http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2009/05/24/expenses-lovenest-of-birmingham-mp-khalid-mahmood-66331-23698297/. Retrieved 3 April 2010. 

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Preceded by
Jeff Rooker		 Member of Parliament for Birmingham Perry Barr
2001–present		 Incumbent

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