Anum Qaisar, previously Anum Qaisar-Javed was born on 11 September 1992 and is a Scottish National Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Airdrie and Shotts from 2021 to 2024, when she lost the seat to Kenneth Stevenson of the Labour Party.
11 Facts About Anum Qaisar
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Anum Qaisar was the SNP Spokesperson for Levelling Up from 2023 to 2024.
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Anum Qaisar's grandfather had emigrated from Pakistan to Manchester in the 1950s.
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Anum Qaisar married Usman, who is a doctor, in 2015.
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Anum Qaisar later worked a parliamentary researcher for Carol Monaghan MP, and as a case-worker for then-Scottish Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf.
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In 2015, Anum Qaisar unsuccessfully stood to be selected as the SNP candidate for Edinburgh Eastern at the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, finishing second to Ash Denham.
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Anum Qaisar taught her students about why people from minority backgrounds are under-represented in politics; citing a lack of role models.
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On 14 May 2021, Anum Qaisar won the election, becoming Scotland's second female Muslim MP after Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, of the SNP, and just like Anum Qaisar a former member of the Labour Party.
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Anum Qaisar took her seat in the House of Commons on 17 May 2021.
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Anum Qaisar ended on a serious note that in the current COVID-19 crisis the NHS had relied on migrant staff, criticising the UK's point-based immigration policy, which she said would even have excluded her own father and deprived the country of an MP, a doctor and a medical student.
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Anum Qaisar was one of many SNP MPs who lost their seat to Labour at the 2024 general election.