Afzal Khan (British politician)

Mohammed Afzal Khan, CBE (5 April 1958) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament  for Manchester Gorton since 2017.

He was elected as councillor in Manchester in 2000 and was Lord Mayor of Manchester for 2005–2006. He was  Member of the European Parliament for North West England from 2014 to 2017.  He is Manchester's first Muslim MP, and the first Muslim Lord Mayor.

Khan was born in Jhelum and came to the UK when he was 11. After leaving school without qualifications, he had a number of jobs, including as a Greater Manchester Police constable, before returning to education and qualifying as a solicitor.

In 2023  he resigned from the frontbench to vote for a SNP motion demanding a ceasefire in Gaza.

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