Rosena Allin-Khan

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Rosena Allin-Khan
MP
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Official portrait, 2019
Shadow Cabinet Minister for Mental Health[lower-alpha 1]
Assumed office
6 April 2020
Leader Keir Starmer
Preceded by Barbara Keeley
Shadow Minister for Sport
In office
9 October 2016 – 14 January 2020
Leader Jeremy Corbyn
Preceded by Clive Efford
Succeeded by Catherine West
Member of Parliament
for Tooting
Assumed office
16 June 2016
Preceded by Sadiq Khan
Majority 14,307 (24.5%)
Member of Wandsworth Council
for Balham
In office
22 May 2014 – 3 May 2018
Personal details
Born Rosena Chantelle Allin-Khan
(1978-05-10) 10 May 1978 (age 46)
Tooting, London, England
Political party Labour
Alma mater Brunel University
Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge
Occupation
  • Politician
  • medical doctor
Website Official website

Rosena Chantelle Allin-Khan (born 10 May 1978)[1] is a British politician and medical doctor serving as Shadow Cabinet Minister for Mental Health since 2020. A member of the Labour Party, she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting since the 2016 Tooting by-election.

She stood as a candidate at the 2020 Labour Party deputy leadership election, finishing in second-place after three rounds of voting.[2] She was previously Shadow Minister for Sport between October 2016 and January 2020.

Early life and education

Rosena Chantelle Allin-Khan was born in Tooting.[3][4] Her parents were both musicians: her Polish mother had been a singer in the Polish girl group Filipinki, and met her father, originally from Pakistan, while the band was on tour in London.[5] After having two children together, the couple separated. Rosena's mother worked at three jobs to support Rosena and her brother.[5]

Allin-Khan was educated at Trinity St Mary's Primary School, Balham, followed by The Grey Coat Hospital.[6][7] But her disappointing A-level grades, two Es and a U, dashed her hopes of being accepted to study medicine.[8] Instead, she studied medical biochemistry at Brunel University, funding her education through a series of part-time jobs and establishing a strong record.[5] She was accepted to study medicine at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, where she was assisted by scholarships.[5]

Medical career

After qualifying as a doctor, Allin-Khan worked at the Royal London and Homerton Hospitals.[9] She also completed a Master's degree in public health.[10] Following this, she worked as a humanitarian aid doctor in Gaza and Israel, Africa, and Asia.[11][12]

Prior to her election to the House of Commons, she worked as a junior doctor in the accident and emergency department at St George's Hospital in Tooting.[7][9] In addition to her parliamentary and ministerial work, Allin-Khan continues to work occasional shifts at St George's Hospital during parliamentary recesses.[13][14]

Political career

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Allin-Khan speaking at a hustings during the deputy leadership campaign in February 2020

Allin-Khan's work in public health also led her to become active in local politics. She was elected as a councillor on Wandsworth Council for Bedford Ward in Balham, serving from 2014 to 2018.[15][16] She served as deputy leader of the council's Labour group.[5][7][9]

Allin-Khan was selected as the Labour Party candidate for the Tooting constituency, after the seat became vacant in May 2016; the sitting MP, Sadiq Khan, had resigned after he had won that year's London mayoral election.[7]

Allin-Khan's by-election campaign emphasised her local, working-class roots and Polish-Pakistani ancestry.[17] When the election results were announced, Allin-Khan read a tribute to Jo Cox, the Labour MP for Batley and Spen who was murdered on the day of the by-election.[18]

She campaigned to remain in the EU during the 2016 Brexit referendum, and later campaigned with the same position for a second referendum on the issue.[19][20][21]

In October 2016, Allin-Khan was appointed Shadow Minister for Sport.[22] While in this position, she pledged to introduce safe standing at football matches in the UK from the 2020/21 season, if Labour won the next election.[23][24] She further campaigned to have England's semi-final match against Croatia during the 2018 World Cup to be shown on big screens in public. She said that the St George's Flag had become associated with the far-right, and was pleased that the success of England in the World Cup had helped reclaim the flag for the wider population.[25]

Allin-Khan retained her seat in the 2017 general election and the 2019 general elections. She received a higher number of votes in the first of these elections, strengthening her position,[26] but falling back slightly in the 2019 election.[27]

Allin-Khan stood as a candidate in the 2020 Labour Party deputy leadership election. During the campaign, she said that she would be a unifying candidate, and highlighted her working-class background, and experience as a doctor.[28][29] She ultimately received 77,351 (16.8%) of first preference votes, and 113,858 (26.1%) in the final round, coming second to Angela Rayner.[2][30]

She was appointed as Shadow Minister for Mental Health in Keir Starmer's first shadow cabinet, shadowing Nadine Dorries.[31] Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in the UK, Allin-Khan has been working 12-hour shifts at St George's Hospital in Tooting, in addition to her job as an MP and a shadow minister.[32][33]

She called for more mental health support to NHS staff during the pandemic, noting that there was a "rise in suicides, self-harm and suicidal ideation among frontline NHS and care staff" due to "a lack of PPE, an increased workload ... and witnessing more patients die".[34][35] She also criticised the UK Government for being too slow in acting, saying that it should have sooner introduced measures such as the lockdown and widespread testing.[36]

In October 2020, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards rebuked Allin-Khan for breaching the Code of Conduct for Members of Parliament. As this was Allin-Khan's third breach of the rules, the matter was referred to the Parliamentary Committee on Standards.[37][38]

In the May 2021 British shadow cabinet reshuffle, she was made a Shadow Secretary of State, which was changed to Shadow Cabinet Minister in November 2021.[39]

Personal life

Allin-Khan is married and lives in Tooting with her husband, who is Welsh.[5] She is a Muslim.[5] The couple have two daughters.[3][7]

She is an amateur boxer, training at Balham Boxing Club. Allin-Khan also serves as the team doctor.[5]

Notes

  1. ↑ Attended shadow cabinet as Shadow Minister (April 2020 – May 2021), Shadow Secretary of State (May 2021 – November 2021).

References

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External links

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament
for Tooting
2016–present		 Incumbent
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