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Mar 28, 1971 Dewsbury, England, United Kingdom 53 years old
British-Pakistani lawyer and politician
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About Sayeeda Warsi Baroness Warsi
- Sayeeda Hussain Warsi, Baroness Warsi (born 28 March 1971) is a British lawyer, politician and member of the House of Lords.
- From 2010 to 2012, she was co-Chair of the Conservative Party.
- She served in David Cameron's Cabinet, first as the Minister without portfolio between 2010 and 2012, then as the Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Office and as the Minister of State for Faith and Communities (styled as "Senior Minister of State"), until her resignation citing her disagreement with the Government's policy on the Israel–Gaza conflict in August 2014.Warsi grew up in a family of Pakistani Muslim immigrants living in West Yorkshire.
- She became a solicitor with the Crown Prosecution Service.
- In 2004, she left the CPS to stand, unsuccessfully, for election to Parliament. In 2005 Warsi came under intense controversy after campaigning to ban teachings about homosexuality in schools fearing it was "allowing schoolchildren to be propositioned for homosexual relationships." She also claimed that by lowering the age of consent from 18 to 16 the Labour Party left teenagers vulnerable to being "propositioned for homosexual relations".
- These comments led Britain's leading gay rights group, Stonewall, to denounce her as being homophobic.
- She later apologised for these comments and stated that the conservative party was "late in coming to this agenda" After being raised to the peerage in 2007, Warsi served as Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion and Social Action.
- The first female Muslim to attend Cabinet, Lady Warsi came to further prominence when, at her first meeting in Downing Street, she wore a traditional South Asian shalwar kameez.
