Yasmin Qureshi | |||||||||||
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![]() Official portrait, 2017 | |||||||||||
Member of Parliament for Bolton South and Walkden Bolton South East (2010–2024) | |||||||||||
Assumed office 6 May 2010 | |||||||||||
Preceded by | Brian Iddon | ||||||||||
Majority | 6,743 (18.3%) | ||||||||||
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Personal details | |||||||||||
Born | Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan | 5 July 1963||||||||||
Nationality | British | ||||||||||
Political party | Labour | ||||||||||
Alma mater | Polytechnic of the South Bank (BA) University College London (LLM) | ||||||||||
Website | www | ||||||||||
Yasmin Qureshi (born 5 July 1963) is a Pakistan-born, British politician and barrister is an incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolton South and Walkden since July 2024. Previously she served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolton South East between from 2010 until 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she headed the criminal legal section of the UN Mission in Kosovo, where she was later Judicial Administration Department Director.
She is the Labour MP in the new constituency of Bolton South and Walkden as a result of the 2024 United Kingdom general election.[1]