Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi
Sayeeda Hussain Warsi, Baroness Warsi ( Urdu سعیده حسین وارثی; born March 28, 1971 in Dewsbury, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England) is a British Conservative Party politician of Pakistani descent, from May 2010 to September 2012, together with Lord Feldman Co Chairman of the Conservative Party and Minister without Portfolio in the Cabinet Cameron. On September 4, 2012, they rose to the Minister of State (Senior Minister of State ) to the Foreign Ministry, in addition, she is responsible for Communities and Local Administration ( Department for Communities and Local Government in ).
Biography
Attorney and unsuccessful candidate for the House of Commons
After visiting the Birkdale High School and Dewsbury College of she was already engaged there politically as Vice President of the Student Union. She then studied law at the University of Leeds. After completion of this study with a Bachelor of Laws ( LL.B. ), she completed postgraduate studies in law at the University of York. During the training, she has also provided polling stations at the Royal prosecution service ( Crown Prosecution Service ) as well as at the Immigration Department of the Ministry of the Interior (Home Office Immigration Department ).
Once qualified Solicitor she was in the law firm of Whitfield Hallam Goodall Solicitors of the former conservative Unterhausabgeordenten of Dewsbury, John Whitfield worked before she opened her own firm with George Warsi Solicitors. She became involved in particular against racism and was an activist for the perception and tougher legislation on forced marriages, female genital mutilation and the chewing of khat.
She was also active for the Operation Black Vote in West Yorkshire, as well as many years as an executive member of the Kirklees Racial Equality Council, a committee for the promotion of the equality of races and peoples. In addition, she is also a member of the Racial Justice Committee of the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and its representative at numerous national conferences.
In addition, she worked in a research project of the Ministry of Labour from Pakistan and is currently chairman of the Foundation Savayra, a resident of Pakistan charity for women.
In June 2004, she was a consultant for community relations of the then opposition leader Michael Howard and candidate in the general election on 5 May 2005 unsuccessfully for a seat in the lower house (House of Commons ). Then she was appointed in June 2005 as Vice - Chairman of the Conservative Party from the new opposition leader David Cameron and as such was responsible to July 2007, especially for the cities.
In July 2007, she appointed Cameron to his Conservative shadow cabinet.
Life peer and the first Muslim woman as minister
On October 11, 2007, she was raised as a life peer with the title Baroness Warsi of Dewsbury in the peerage, and was, at the time of their appointment, the youngest member of the House of Lords.
In these roles, she sat as the representative of Great Britain, Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed successfully for the release of British teacher Gillian Gibbons in Sudan in December 2007.
After the electoral victory of the Conservative Party in the general election on 6 May 2010 Warsi was appointed on 11 May 2010 by Prime Minister David Cameron as Minister without Portfolio in the Cabinet. She is the first Muslim woman to a ministerial post in the United Kingdom. At the same time, she was Co - Chairman of the Conservative Party together with Lord Feldman. In 2012 she moved to the Foreign Office.