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Kuldip Sahota, Baron Sahota

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The Lord Sahota
Official portrait, 2023
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
2 November 2022
Life peerage
Personal details
Born
Kuldip Singh Sahota

(1951-05-02) 2 May 1951 (age 73)
India
NationalityBritish
Political partyLabour
Children2
WebsiteOfficial website

Kuldip Singh Sahota, Baron Sahota (born 2 May 1951),[1] is a British Labour Party politician and life peer.

Sahota was born in India of Sikh Punjabi heritage, the son of a foundry worker who emigrated to England in 1957; he joined his father in 1966.[2] Sahota worked for 15 years at the factory of GKN Sankey in Telford before going into full-time political work and going into private business.[2]

Sahota, who had been active in his trade union at work in industry, was elected as a Labour councillor for Malinslee and Dawley Bank on Telford and Wrekin Council, serving from 2001 to 2023. He served as the leader of the council between 2011 and 2016.[2]

He was the Labour candidate for Ludlow at the 2019 general election. In November 2019, at a hustings held in Church Stretton, the Conservative candidate (and incumbent MP) Philip Dunne told Sahota that he was "talking through his turban".[3]

In 2021 it was reported that Sahota was on the shortlist to be Labour candidate at the North Shropshire by-election, but in fact had not actually applied.[4]

In October 2022, it was announced that he would receive a life peerage in the 2022 Special Honours.[5] On 2 November 2022, he was created Baron Sahota, of Telford in the County of Shropshire.[6][7]

Sahota is married to Sukhi and has two sons. He assists in his wife's restaurant business. They live in Ketley, Telford.[2]

In 2019 he wrote and produced a film documentary taking an in-depth look into the Amritsar Massacre of 1919.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Kuldip Sahota". api.parliament.uk. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e Austin, Sue (15 November 2022). "From factory floor to the floor of the House of Lords". Shropshire Star. p. 2.
  3. ^ "Ludlow Tory candidate made 'shocking' turban remark". BBC News. 28 November 2019. Archived from the original on 29 November 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
  4. ^ "Labour plots North Shropshire success as Keir Starmer announces by-election plan". Shropshire Star. 9 November 2021. Archived from the original on 9 November 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  5. ^ "Political Peerages 2022". gov.uk. 14 October 2022. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
  6. ^ "No. 63868". The London Gazette. 8 November 2022. p. 21266.
  7. ^ "Lord Sahota". MPs and Lords. UK Parliament. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
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