Imran Hussain
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Imran Hussain (born 7 June 1978) is a British Labour Party politician and a barrister. He became the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Bradford East after gaining the seat from the Liberal Democrats at the 2015 general election. He was re-elected to Parliament at the 2019 general election.
Expelled
July 24, 2024, Sir Keir Starmer has been condemned by union leaders for suspending seven Labour MPs for voting to scrap the two-child benefit cap, as independents including Jeremy Corbyn vowed to work with them to offer a “real alternative.”
Leaders of fire, education, civil service, bakeries and mail unions hit out at the Prime Minister’s “disgraceful” and “completely wrong” decision as they joined thousands backing a grassroots petition calling for their reinstatement.
Former shadow chancellor John McDonnell, ex-shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey, Apsana Begum, Richard Burgon, Ian Byrne, Zarah Sultana and Imran Hussain were kicked out of the Parliamentary Labour Party for six months for backing an SNP amendment calling for the cap to be scrapped on Tuesday night.[1]
In late January 2025, Westminster sources indicated that Keir Starmer’s whips are considering readmitting to the parliamentary party five of the seven MPs who rebelled.
Under the scenario, members for Coventry South, Zarah Sultana, and Poplar and Limehouse, Apsana Begum, would not have their suspensions lifted.
The other five — Richard Burgon, Ian Byrne, Imran Hussain, Rebecca Long-Bailey and John McDonnell — would have the whip restored.
All seven were removed from the Parliamentary Labour Party for a six-month period, now almost elapsed, after their rebellion last July.
At a recent meeting of the left Socialist Campaign Group of MPs, those present agreed that they should seek to return to the Labour fold, though not all of the seven were in attendance.
There had been speculation that they might seek to regroup with the left-wing Independent Alliance of MPs, which includes Jeremy Corbyn.[2]
Socialist Campaign Group
In 2021 Imran Hussain was member of the Socialist Campaign Group in the House of Parliament.
Councillor
Imran Hussain was a Labour councillor in the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council having first been elected in 2002. In 2003, Hussain brought forward a motion to Bradford Council opposing the Iraq War.
Supporting the Left
In 2014, Bradford East Constituency Labour Party opened its parliamentary selection process. In the final selection meeting held on 1 November 2014, Hussain was chosen over three other candidates, including the President of the Trades Union Congress to become Labour's candidate for the seat. During his 2015 general election campaign for Bradford East, Hussain rejected a £1,000 donation from Tony Blair citing his own opposition to the Iraq War as the reason.
He was subsequently elected to Parliament in 2015 by gaining the seat from David Ward of the Liberal Democrats with a 13.8% swing to Labour and a majority of 7,084.
On 15 May 2015, Hussain was one of 10 newly elected Labour MPs who signed an open letter calling for a Leader of the Labour Party who will not "draw back to the ‘New Labour’ creed of the past" and will oppose austerity
Imran Hussain was one of 36 Labour MPs who nominated Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015. He fully supported Corbyn's leadership campaign. On 14 January 2016, Hussain was appointed Shadow Minister of State for International Development by Jeremy Corbyn. On 3 July 2017, he was appointed Shadow Minister of State for Justice. Hussain nominated Rebecca Long-Bailey as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2020 and nominated Richard Burgon for the deputy leadership. On 9 April 2020 he was appointed by Sir Keir Starmer as Shadow Minister of State for Employment Rights.
Cuba Covid letter
April 15 2020, fifty one British members of parliament have written to Dominic Raab, the UK Foreign Secretary and acting Prime Minister to call for the US blockade of Cuba to be temporarily suspended during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Grahame Morris MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Cuba, coordinated the letter which asks the British government to make a public statement and to raise the issue directly with its counterparts in the United States’ government.
The letter from the British parliamentarians cites examples from around the world where governments and international organisations have demanded that humanitarian aid be allowed in to Cuba to help the country fight COVID-19. It quotes Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Arancha Gonzalez, Spanish Foreign Minister, and Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs, who have all publicly called for sanctions to be suspended to Cuba and other sanctioned countries to allow for the delivery of essential supplies and medicine to stop the spread of the virus.
Yours sincerely,
Grahame Morris MP, Chair, APPG Cuba.
Dan Carden MP, Vice Chair, Kate Osborne MP, Vice Chair, Kim Johnson MP, Vice Chair, Paula Barker MP, Vice Chair, Alison Thewliss MP Allan Dorans MP, Amy Callaghan MP, Andy McDonald MP, Apsana Begum MP, Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP, Beth Winter MP, Carol Monaghan MP, Chris Law MP, Chris Stephens MP, Claudia Webbe MP, Clive Lewis MP, Dave Doogan MP, Diane Abbott MP, Geraint Davies MP, Ian Byrne MP, Ian Mearns MP, Ian Lavery MP, Imran Hussain MP, Joanna Cherry MP, John McDonnell MP, Jon Trickett MP, Kate Osamor MP, Kenny MacAskill MP, Kirsten Oswald MP, Kirsty Blackman MP, Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP, Margaret Ferrier MP, Marion Fellowes MP, Martyn Day MP, Mary Kelly Foy MP, Mick Whitley MP, Mike Amesbury MP, Mike Hill MP, Navendu Mishra MP, Olivia Blake MP, Owen Thompson MP, Rachel Hopkins MP, Richard Burgon MP, Ronnie Cowan MP, Sam Tarry MP, Sarah Champion MP, Stephen Bonnar MP, Stephen Flynn MP, Yasmin Qureshi MP, Zarah Sultana MP[3]
"End of Austerity"
May 2015 Richard Burgon MP, Louise Haigh MP, Harry Harpham MP, Imran Hussain MP, Clive Lewis MP, Rebecca Long-Bailey MP, Rachael Maskell MP, Kate Osamor MP, Cat Smith MP, Jo Stevens MP.