Shabana Mahmood
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| Born | 17 September 1980 Small Heath, Birmingham, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Lincoln College (Oxford) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Labour Party | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Former Justice Secretary, now UK/Home Secretary
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Shabana Mahmood is a British Labour Party politician and barrister who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham, Ladywood since 2010.[1]
Following the UK/General election/2024, Keir Starmer appointed her Secretary of State for Justice. On 5 September 2025, Shabana Mahmood was appointed UK/Home Secretary.
Mahmood was in the Shadow Cabinet of Keir Starmer as the Labour Party National Campaign Coordinator since May 2021. She was previously Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 2015.
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Political positions
Ideologically, Mahmood identifies as a social conservative and as belonging to the Blue Labour faction of the Labour Party.
Following her appointment as Home Secretary in 2025, Blue Labour founder Maurice Glasman described her as "clearly the leader of our part of the party". In an interview with Michael Gove, the editor of The Spectator in 2025, she described herself as a small-c social conservative and named Margaret Thatcher and Benazir Bhutto as her political idols, but said this was because they were women who came to power in "tight patriarchal systems" rather than for their political ideas.[2]
Israel – Palestine
In 2024, Mahmood voted against making BDS illegal. She did not sign a letter urging the UK to uphold the International Criminal Court's arrest warrants for Israeli officials. She abstained from several key votes on issues related to the war in Gaza, including a call for a ceasefire in Gaza in November 2023 and a call to suspend arms sales to Israel in March 2024. She chose to abstain from proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group.[3]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start |
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| Keir Starmer/Premiership | 5 July 2024 |
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:No one in power respects my grief. Who is coming to console me? | blog post | 5 October 2025 | Jonathan Cook | They want me and millions of other Britons to imagine we are alone in our grief, and that our grief is shameful. They need us to succumb to their lies. But we must never forget. We are many. And it's they, not us, who are the monsters. |
References
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