Tulip Siddiq was first elected as the Labour MP for Hampstead and Kilburn in 2015 being reelected in 2019 with a majority of 14,188.
The Hampstead and Kilburn constituency is found in inner north London. Comprising the northern part of Camden, the seat covers Swiss Cottage, West Hampstead, Kilburn, and Belsize Park. It has been held by the Labour Party ever since 1992. The seat is ethnically diverse and contains both large Muslim and Jewish communities. A high 76% of the electorate supported Remain in the 2016 EU referendum. The seat was represented at Westminster by the Oscar winning actress Glenda Jackson between 1992 and 2015.
Siddiq currently serves on the Shadow Treasury team. She served as Shadow Minister for Children and Early Years between 2020 and 2021.
Born in 1982 in Hampstead, Tulip joined the Labour party when she was 16. After attending Kings College London, she worked for Amnesty International, the Greater London Authority, and worked in public affairs at Philip Gould Associates, Save the Children, and Brunswick. She also was an advisor to the former Cabinet Minister, Tessa Jowell.
Siddiq was elected to Camden Council between 2010 and 2014.
She is the niece of the Bangladesh Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, who has been criticised for human rights abuses during her period in office. Siddiq’s grandfather was Bangladesh’s first President, Sheik Mujibur Rahman, who was assassinated in a military coup in 1975.
A campaigner against Brexit, Siddiq once delayed a planned caesarean operation to vote against Theresa May’s Brexit agreement.
Siddiq is said to be Parliament’s shortest MP at four feet eleven inches and a half.
Between 2017 and 2022, Tulip Siddiq was at the forefront of campaigns for the release of her constituent, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, from her six year detention in Iran.
Tulip Siddiq is Vice Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Groups on Antisemitism; and on Internet, Communications and Technology. She was the first MP to be allowed to vote by proxy in the House of Commons.
She is married with two children. Siddiq is a Muslim and her husband is a Christian.
Email: tulip.siddiq.mp@parliament.uk
Personal Website: http://www.tulipsiddiq.com/
Twitter: twitter.com/tulipsiddiq
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/tulipsiddiq
