Kuldip Sahota, Baron Sahota

Kuldip Singh Sahota, Baron Sahota (born 2 May 1951),[1] is a British politician and life peer. A member of the Labour Party, he was a councillor for Malinslee and Dawley Bank on Telford and Wrekin Council from 2001 to 2023, and served as the leader of the council from 2011 to 2016.[2]

The Right Honourable
The Lord Sahota
Official portrait, 2023
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
2 November 2022
Life peerage
Personal details
Born
Kuldip Singh Sahota

(1951-05-02) 2 May 1951
India
NationalityBritish
Political partyLabour
Children2
WebsiteOfficial website

Sahota was born in India of Sikh Punjabi heritage, the son of a foundry worker who emigrated to England in 1957; he joined his father in 1966.[2] Sahota worked for 15 years at the factory of GKN Sankey in Telford before going into full-time political work and going into private business.[2]

Sahota, who had been active in his trade union at work in industry, was elected as a Labour councillor for Malinslee and Dawley Bank on Telford and Wrekin Council. He served as the leader of the council between 2011 and 2015.[2]

He was the Labour candidate for Ludlow at the 2019 general election. In November 2019, at a hustings held in Church Stretton, the Conservative candidate (and incumbent MP) Philip Dunne told Sahota that he was "talking through his turban".[3]

In 2021 it was reported that Sahota was on the shortlist to be Labour candidate at the North Shropshire by-election, but in fact had not actually applied.[4]

In October 2022, it was announced that he would receive a life peerage in the 2022 Special Honours.[5] On 2 November 2022, he was created Baron Sahota, of Telford in the County of Shropshire.[6][7]

Sahota is married to Sukhi and has two sons. He assists in his wife's restaurant business. They live in Ketley, Telford.[2]

In 2019 he wrote and produced a film documentary taking an in-depth look into the Amritsar Massacre of 1919.[2]

References
  1. "Kuldip Sahota". api.parliament.uk. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  2. "From factory floor to the floor of the House of Lords". Shropshire Star. 15 November 2022. p. 2.Report by Sue Austin.
  3. "Ludlow Tory candidate made 'shocking' turban remark". BBC News. 28 November 2019. Archived from the original on 29 November 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
  4. "Labour plots North Shropshire success as Keir Starmer announces by-election plan". Shropshire Star. 9 November 2021. Archived from the original on 9 November 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  5. "Political Peerages 2022". gov.uk. 14 October 2022. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
  6. "No. 63868". The London Gazette. 8 November 2022. p. 21266.
  7. "Lord Sahota". MPs and Lords. UK Parliament. Retrieved 2 November 2022.


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