26 Facts About Ali Milani

Ali Milani is a British author, political commentator, and Labour Party politician.

Ali Milani has previously served as a Vice President of the National Union of Students.

Ali Milani was born in Tehran, Iran, and moved to the UK at the age of five.

Ali Milani studied International Relations at Brunel University London, where he was President of the Union of Brunel Students from 2015 until 2017.

In 2017, Ali Milani became the Vice President for Union Development at the National Union of Students, and he was re-elected in 2018.

Ali Milani became a local councillor in Hillingdon in 2018, and was chosen in September as the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Uxbridge and South Ruislip.

In 2022, Ali Milani published The Unlikely Candidate, which covered his experience as a political candidate and commentary on the British political system.

Ali Milani was born in July 1994 in Tehran, the Iranian capital.

Ali Milani moved to the UK with his family at the age of five, living in Hillingdon in London.

Ali Milani joined the Labour Party at the age of nineteen.

Ali Milani is a practising Muslim and attends Friday prayers at Brunel University London.

Ali Milani later said, in a 2017 BuzzFeed News article, that the "election campaign was one of the worst I had to go through, with all sorts of different abuse".

Ali Milani referred to a "huge unspoken-about fear among Muslim students" in getting involved with student politics but said that "We will break down these barriers".

Ali Milani said that universities "know they can" charge the amounts they do for accommodation "because the students have no choice".

Ali Milani commented that "we expressed our concerns that she has no academic credibility and contributes nothing to the debate", saying that "our students find [some of her views] offensive".

Ali Milani said of the decision to organise a walkout that "Ms Hopkins has the right to speak, but we have the right to express our discontent".

Whilst president, Ali Milani gave a statement opposing the UK government's Prevent, a counter-terrorism strategy.

Ali Milani opined that the strategy is "about grabbing one community and providing disproportionate amounts of suspicion and spying on", citing students' unions that were forced to hand over lists of Islamic society membership to police.

Ali Milani claimed that "Right wing extremism is almost four times more likely to be a problem on campuses and your streets than Islamic extremism".

In 2017, Ali Milani was elected vice president for Union Development.

Ali Milani was re-elected as vice president for Union Development in March 2018 and served until 2019.

In office, Ali Milani supported the UCU and University staff in their pay dispute and consequent strike action and campaigned for universities to do more to tackle climate change.

In September 2018, Ali Milani was selected as the Labour Party's Prospective Parliamentary Candidate in Uxbridge and South Ruislip.

Ali Milani said that his campaign would be about local issues.

Whilst campaigning, Ali Milani discussed areas where he said that Johnson has failed, including the planned expansion of Heathrow Airport and Hillingdon Hospital, where children were moved out of the paediatrics department after it was ruled unsafe for use.

Ali Milani chaired the launch of the Labour Muslim Network in December 2017.