Sayeeda Hussain Warsi, Baroness Warsi (Urdu: سعیده حسین وارثی, born 28 March 1971) is a British solicitor and politician of Yorkshire origin who was created a life peer in 2007. As of 2012 she was the co-Chairman, with Lord Feldman, of the Conservative Party, and a Minister without Portfolio in David Cameron's Cabinet. She is the third Muslim minister and the first female Muslim to serve as a minister in the UK.
Warsi was the second of five daugh...
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Sayeeda Hussain Warsi, Baroness Warsi (Urdu: سعیده حسین وارثی, born 28 March 1971) is a British solicitor and politician of Yorkshire origin who was created a life peer in 2007. As of 2012 she was the co-Chairman, with Lord Feldman, of the Conservative Party, and a Minister without Portfolio in David Cameron's Cabinet. She is the third Muslim minister and the first female Muslim to serve as a minister in the UK.
Warsi was the second of five daughters born in Dewsbury, West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1971, to Pakistani immigrants from Bewal, Gujar Khan. Her father, Safdar Hussain, operates a bed manufacturing company, which has a turnover of £2 million a year, after starting life as a mill worker. It was featured in 2004 in the BBC TV troubleshooter series I'll Show Them Who's Boss where former head of Granada Gerry Robinson found problems and family disagreements "on a scale of Dallas or Dynasty" were keeping the firm out of profitability. Warsi has said that her father's success led her...
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