Yasmin Qureshi is a British Labour Party politician and a barrister practising criminal law. She headed the criminal legal section of the UN Mission in Kosovo. She was elected as the Member of Parliament for Bolton South East in the May 2010 general election. She became Shadow Minister for International Development in April 2020.
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Yasmin Qureshi is a British Labour Party politician and a barrister practising criminal law. She headed the criminal legal section of the UN Mission in Kosovo and was later appointed Director of the department of Judicial Administration there. She was elected as the Member of Parliament for Bolton South East in the May 2010 general election. She became Shadow Minister for International Development in April 2020. She has worked for justice for the parents and children of those affected by Primodos, a historic hormone test used in the 1960s and 1970s which significant evidence indicates indicates birth defects. In 2017 she stated in the House of Commons that a Report into a purported cover-up which may have taken place in the 1970s and 1980s had been a whitewash and called for a formal inquiry. In 2016 she stated that “cutting funding for community pharmacies threatens patient care and safety and that these cuts are totally short-sighted’.
In 2011, she called for an inquiry into the drug’s use in the 70s and 80s. In 2012 she called on the Government to investigate claims of a cover up in the 1980s of drug use in children. In 2013 she said: “There needs to be clarity and transparency over value for money and the benefits to the rest of the country, not just London’”. In 2014 she said that the benefits of HS2 needed to be felt by those in the North as well as the South. In 2015 she said “there needs to. be clarity over value and transparency” over the cost of the project. In early October 2016 she was appointed as aShadow Minister for Justice by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. She is one of three female MPs elected at the same time as Rushanara Ali and Shabana Mahmood, who became Britain’s first female Muslim MPs. In 2010 she was elected in 2010 with 18,782 votes and 47. 4% of the vote and has since achieved higher vote tallies and vote proportions.
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