Murad Qureshi

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Murad Qureshi (Template:Langx; born 27 May 1965) is a British Labour and Co-operative Party politician, and a former Member of the London Assembly.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Early life and education

Qureshi was born in Greater Manchester, in north-west England, but he was brought up in Westminster, London, where his parents moved in July 1965. He attended Quintin Kynaston School and graduated from the University of East Anglia with a degree in Development Studies in 1987, before undertaking an MSc in Environmental Economics at University College London, which he completed in 1993.<ref name=":0" />

Qureshi is of Bangladeshi descent,<ref name="telegraph">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="msn">Template:Cite news</ref> and comes from a politically active family: his late father Mushtaq Qureshi was a Labour Party councillor in the City of Westminster<ref name="thecnj">Template:Cite news</ref> and was a freedom fighter in the Bangladesh War of Liberation. His youngest sister, Papya Qureshi, was also a councillor in Westminster.<ref name="westminster">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Career

Before becoming an Assembly Member, he worked in Housing and Regeneration for 15 years, helping establish housing associations and co-ops in the East End.<ref name="biography">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

He was an Executive Committee member of SERA from 1994 to 2000<ref name="biography" /> and a former board member of BRAC U.K, an international NGO seeking to alleviate poverty and empower the poor.

In 2018 it was reported that Jeremy Corbyn had intended to propose Qureshi for a peerage.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Politics

Qureshi was a councillor for Church Street on Westminster City Council from 1998 to 2006, and was elected on the Labour Party's party list to the London Assembly at the 2004 Assembly election. He was re-elected at the 2008 election and again at the 2012 Assembly election. He failed to be re-elected at the 2016 election; because Labour gained constituency seats, it lost seats from its party list, which Qureshi was on.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="results2016">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2005, he was described as "the only Muslim member" of the London Assembly,<ref name="independent">Template:Cite news</ref> although he supports Amartya Sen's theory of plural identities<ref>See Amartya Sen, Identity and Violence (2006)</ref> and has criticised the practice of individuals "defining themselves simply by their religion, without taking into account other key aspects of their identity".<ref name="blog">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>See also London in multiple identities Qureshi Report, 8 April 2009</ref>

Qureshi was Chair of the London Assembly's Environment Committee and a Member of the Transport Committee. He was also a member of the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority, which oversees the London Fire Brigade between 2004–2012 and Chair of the Mayor's London Waterways Commission, since its inception. From 2004 to 2006, Qureshi was a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority.

Under his chairmanship of the Environment Committee at the London Assembly, a body of work emerged against expansion of Heathrow airport work and its adverse environmental impact on Londoners' quality of life, particularly in west London suburbs, including reports "Plane Speaking" (2012) and "Flights of Fancy" (2010), plus consultation responses on the Government's Draft Aviation Policy Framework (2012), and more recently against night flights.

"Flights of Fancy", produced before the general election in May 2010, argued against Labour government keenness to have a third runway at Heathrow. Since losing that general election, the Labour Party has dropped its position on the expansion of Heathrow airport.

As an Assembly Member, he has undertaken rapporteurships into pedicabs (cycle rickshaws)<ref name="londonassemblyrickshaws">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the loss of London's playing fields.<ref name="londonassemblyplayingfields">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The latter report called for Sport England to be consulted on all applications for developments on playing fields measuring 0.2 hectares or more, a policy which has since been adopted by the Department for Communities and Local Government.<ref name="thisislondon">Template:Cite news</ref>

Qureshi lost his seat in 2016, but returned to the assembly in 2020 following the resignation of Fiona Twycross.<ref name="return2020">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was third on the Labour list for the 2021 election, and was not re-elected.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

At the 2018 and 2022 local elections, Qureshi stood in Little Venice ward on Westminster City Council, but was unsuccessful on both occasions.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Campaigns and activities

Among his campaigns, Qureshi has called for the inclusion of Twenty20 cricket in the 2012 Olympic Games,<ref name="twenty20for2012">Template:Cite news</ref> a proposal which received the backing of the London Assembly,<ref name="timesofindia">Template:Cite news</ref> and he has advocated the use of blue lines to mark the courses of London's underground rivers.<ref name="thecnj2">Template:Cite news</ref>

He has called for Edgware Road tube station (Bakerloo Line) to be renamed after Church Street Market, as this would end the confusion between that station and the namesake station on the Circle, District and Hammersmith & City lines.<ref name="bbc">Template:Cite news</ref>

Qureshi has worked for many years to raise awareness of the crucial role of remittances in international development<ref name="guardian">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="blog2">Template:Cite news</ref> with his last letter in the Financial Times generating much debate. In 2004, remittances was the key topic on which he presented evidence before the House of Commons International Development Committee as part of a submission by the British Bangladeshi International Development Group.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2007, Qureshi hosted a meeting at City Hall which launched the Cambridge IGCSEs in Bangladesh, Pakistan and India Studies<ref name="blog3">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> with Amartya Sen's support. Qureshi closely follows political developments in South Asia, and was in Bangladesh for the parliamentary elections in December 2008.<ref name="blog4">Template:Cite news</ref>

He is Chairman of Capital SERA, the London branch of the Socialist Environment and Resources Association.<ref name="blog5">Template:Cite news</ref>Template:Update inline Qureshi is also a former chair of the Stop the War Coalition.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He has contributed regular columns to the Morning Star,<ref name="MorningStar">Template:Cite news</ref> The China Daily,<ref name="chinadaily">Template:Cite news</ref> Tribune<ref name="tribunemagazine">Template:Cite news</ref> and the Westminster Extra.

Qureshi has had a music record named after him, and financially backed a British film, Shongram, a romantic drama set during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation struggle.Template:Citation needed

Personal life

Qureshi lists his recreations as "football and cricket (playing and watching)".<ref name=":0" />

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