Bangladeshi-origin Rushanara Ali has been appointed as a parliamentary under-secretary of state in the ministry of housing, communities and local government.
The newly elected Labour government made the appointment on Tuesday (9 July).
Rushanara and a flurry of other appointments came five days after Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s party swept to power in a landslide election victory.
Rushanara Ali, the first person of Bangladeshi origin, has been re-elected in Bethnal Green and Bow as an MP for the Labour Party with 15,896 votes (34.1% for the fifth consecutive term.
She was first elected in Britain's House of Commons in 2010.
Earlier, the newly elected Labour government appointed Tulip Siddiq, another Bangladeshi-origin UK politician, as Britain's' City Minister, the minister responsible for overseeing the financial services sector.
A total of four Bangladesh-born Labour candidates have been re-elected as Members of Parliament in the 2024 UK Parliamentary elections.
