Amina Ali

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Amina Ali
Ward Councillor for Tower Hamlets
Assumed office
May 2014
Personal details
Political party Labour

Amina Ali (Somali : Aamiina Cali, Arabic : أمينة علي‎) is a Somali-British politician. She is a Labour Party Ward Councillor representing Tower Hamlets.

Somali language language of East Cushitic branch of Afro-Asiatic family

Somali is an Afroasiatic language belonging to the Cushitic branch. It is spoken as a mother tongue by Somalis in Greater Somalia and the Somali diaspora. Somali is an official language of Somalia, a national language in Djibouti, and a working language in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. It is used as an adoptive language by a few neighboring ethnic minority groups and individuals. The Somali language is written officially with the Latin alphabet.

United Kingdom Country in Europe

The United Kingdom, officially the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland but more commonly known as the UK or Britain, is a sovereign country lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state‍—‌the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the North Sea to the east, the English Channel to the south and the Celtic Sea to the south-west, giving it the 12th-longest coastline in the world. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland. With an area of 242,500 square kilometres (93,600 sq mi), the United Kingdom is the 78th-largest sovereign state in the world. It is also the 22nd-most populous country, with an estimated 66.0 million inhabitants in 2017.

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom which has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. The party's platform emphasises greater state intervention, social justice and strengthening workers' rights.

Career

Ali initially worked as a journalist and researcher with the BBC. She subsequently began a career as a legal adviser. [1]

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters are at Broadcasting House in Westminster, London, and it is the world's oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees. It employs over 20,950 staff in total, 16,672 of whom are in public sector broadcasting. The total number of staff is 35,402 when part-time, flexible, and fixed-contract staff are included.

In 2006, Ali ran under a Labour Party ticket for a seat as Councillor for the Weavers ward in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. She placed sixth in a field of sixteen candidates, earning 652 (6.68%) total votes. [2]

Ali later ran again for a Bow East ward seat in the 2014 Tower Hamlets Council election. She earned 2023 (14.94%) total votes, securing the third seat on the local Council. [3]

Bow, London district in East London, England

Bow is a district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in Greater London. Spanning north-south from the Great Eastern Main Line to the Limehouse Cut and west-east from Mile End to Stratford, it is built-up and mostly residential, and 4.6 miles (7.4 km) east of Charing Cross.

In February 2015, Ali was chosen as the Labour Party's candidate to run against incumbent Bradford West MP George Galloway of the Respect Party in the year's general election. She was the first Somali woman selected to contest a seat in Parliament. [4] [5] Ali was chosen from a shortlist of three women, [1] beating out campaigner Naz Shah and councillor Naveeda Ikram. She resigned three days later, indicating that she did not want to disrupt her children's upbringing by moving residences. [4] Galloway was defeated at the election by the eventual Labour candidate, Naz Shah.

References

  1. 1 2 "Labour choose British-Somali Londoner to stand against George Galloway". The Guardian. 22 February 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "Election results for Weavers - Local Elections - Thursday, 4th May, 2006". Tower Hamlets. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
  3. ↑ "Election results for Bow East - Local Elections - Thursday, 22nd May, 2014". Tower Hamlets. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Labour candidate chosen to face George Galloway resigns after three days". The Guardian. 25 February 2015. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
  5. ↑ "George Galloway's Battle To Hold Bradford West From Labour's Amina Ali Is Already Getting Personal". Huffington Post. 21 February 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
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