Saqib Bhatti | |
|---|---|
 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Shadow Minister for Science, Innovation and Technology | |
| Assumed office 19 July 2024 | |
| Leader | Rishi Sunak |
| Shadow Minister for Health and Social Care | |
| Assumed office 19 July 2024 | |
| Leader | Rishi Sunak |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Tech and the Digital Economy | |
| In office 13 November 2023 – 5 July 2024 | |
| Prime Minister | Rishi Sunak |
| Preceded by | Paul Scully |
| Succeeded by | The Baroness Jones of Whitchurch |
| Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party for Business | |
| In office 30 September 2022 – 13 November 2023 | |
| Leader | Liz Truss Rishi Sunak |
| Member of Parliament for Meriden and Solihull East Meriden (2019–2024) | |
| Assumed office 12 December 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Caroline Spelman |
| Majority | 4,584 (10.4%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 June 1985 Walsall, West Midlands, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Residence | Dorridge |
| Alma mater | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Website | www |
Mohammad Saqib Bhatti[1] MBE (born 18 June 1985)[2] is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Meriden and Solihull East, formerly Meriden, since the 2019 general election.[3] He previously served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Tech and the Digital Economy from 2023 to 2024 and as the Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party for Business from 2022 to 2023.[4]
Prior to serving in parliament, Bhatti founded the pro-Brexit group Muslims for Britain, which advocated for leaving the European Union (EU) in the 2016 referendum.[5][6]
He has been Shadow Minister for Science, Innovation and Technology and Shadow Minister for Health and Social Care since July 2024.[7]
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- ^ Brunskill, Ian (19 March 2020). The Times guide to the House of Commons 2019 : the definitive record of Britain's historic 2019 General Election. HarperCollins Publishers Limited. p. 270. ISBN 978-0-00-839258-1. OCLC 1129682574.
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