{"id":4676,"date":"2010-05-07T14:19:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T14:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/05\/07\/birmingham-elects-first-female-muslim-mp\/"},"modified":"2010-05-07T14:19:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T14:19:45","slug":"birmingham-elects-first-female-muslim-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/07\/birmingham-elects-first-female-muslim-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham elects first female Muslim MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Joy for Labour\u2019s Shabana Mahmood<\/h3>\n<div><strong>LABOUR\u2019S Shabana Mahmood has become Birmingham\u2019s first female Muslim MP.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The Oxford graduate, who describes herself as a \u2018born and bred Brummie\u2019 polled 19,950 votes, a majority of 10,105 over Liberal Democrat Ayoub Khan in the Ladywood constituency of the city. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Mahmood said she was &#8220;humbled and honoured&#8221; by her win. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;This is a constituency with significant challenges but it is incredibly diverse and vibrant. I pledge to be a hard working MP, working every day to fulfill the faith people have in me. I will fight for Ladywood as a passionate and committed Labour MP,&#8221; she said.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>There was disappointment for the Respect Party\u2019s Salma Yaqoob who came in second behind Labour\u2019s Roger Godsiff in the Hall Green constituency. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Ms Yaqoob polled an impressive 12,240 votes \u2013but fell short of the 16,039 gained by Mr Godsiff. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Despite the disappointment, Ms Yaqoob said coming second was a \u201cfantastic achievement.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThanks to everybody who supported my campaign. Despite being written off by the media I came second, polling over 12,000 votes. It is a fantastic achievement and testimony to a desire for a political alternative to the parties of bombing and big business. It is clear that many people\u2019s fear of a Tory government boosted the Labour vote, puncturing the Lib Dem bubble but also squeezing my vote as well,\u201d she said.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cI am really proud of the campaign that I ran. I will be campaigning for peace, justice and equality with the same passion tomorrow and in the months to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joy for Labour\u2019s Shabana Mahmood LABOUR\u2019S Shabana Mahmood has become Birmingham\u2019s first female Muslim MP. &#13; The Oxford graduate, who describes herself as a \u2018born and bred Brummie\u2019 polled 19,950 votes, a majority of 10,105 over Liberal Democrat Ayoub Khan in the Ladywood constituency of the city. &#13; Mahmood said she was &#8220;humbled and honoured&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}