Rushanara Ali — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Rushanara Ali (born 1975); used for entity facts only. It records her birth at Bishwanath, Sylhet, Bangladesh, on 14 March 1975, her move to London at seven, her PPE degree at St John's College, Oxford, her research and human-rights work before Parliament, her 2010 election as the first person of Bangladeshi origin in the House of Commons and one of the UK's first female Muslim MPs, her office as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Homelessness and Democracy (2024–2025) and her resignation from it in August 2025.