Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi

Sayeeda Hussain Warsi, Baroness Warsi (, born 28 March 1971) is a British lawyer and politician. She is the Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party (with Andrew Feldman).

A life peer, she is also the Minister without Portfolio in David Cameron's Cabinet, and although she is the third minister to be a Muslim, following Shahid Malik and Sadiq Khan, she is the first ever unelected Muslim, and the first ever female Muslim, to serve as a minister in the UK.

Early life, family

Warsi was born in Dewsbury, West Riding of Yorkshire in 1971, to Pakistani immigrants from Bewal, Gujar Khan, the second of five daughters. Her father, Safdar Hussain,

In 1990, Warsi was married and had one daughter. She and her first husband divorced in December 2007 after 17 years of marriage. On 20 August 2009 Warsi married her second husband, Iftikhar Azam, in a simple Nikah ceremony at her parents’ house in Dewsbury followed by a wedding celebration attended by close family.

Education

She was educated at Birkdale High School, Dewsbury College, and the University of Leeds, where she read law (LLB). She attended the York College of Law to complete her legal practice...
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