The Lord Mohammed of Tinsley | |
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![]() Official portrait, 2025 | |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 21 February 2025 Life peerage | |
Member of the European Parliament for Yorkshire and the Humber | |
In office 2 July 2019 –31 January 2020 | |
Preceded by | John Procter |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | Mirpur,Azad Kashmir,Pakistan | 21 July 1972
Nationality | British |
Political party | Liberal Democrats |
Alma mater | University of Sheffield |
Shaffaq Mohammed,Baron Mohammed of Tinsley, MBE (born 21 July 1972) is a British politician and life peer. He served as a Liberal Democrats Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Yorkshire and the Humber from 2019 until Brexit in 2020. [1] He unsuccessfully stood as the Liberal Democrat candidate for the House of Commons in three elections for seats in Sheffield. In February 2025,he became a member of the House of Lords.
Mohammed was born on 21 July 1972 in Mirpur,a city in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. [2] He was aged four when his family moved to the United Kingdom. [3] In April 1977 he moved to Sheffield and studied at Park House school. He left school at 16 and was employed through the youth training scheme,while also studying for A-levels at Loxley College. [4] As a mature student,he studied for a degree in business from the University of Sheffield. [4] He then worked as a youth worker in Sheffield. [5]
Between 2004 and 2014 Mohammed served as the Liberal Democrat councillor for Broomhill Ward on Sheffield City Council. He contested Crookes Ward in 2014 and was defeated. He returned as a councillor for Ecclesall Ward in 2016 and was re-elected in 2018.
Mohammed was elected as leader of the Liberal Democrat Group on Sheffield City Council in May 2011. [6] He lost this position when he lost his seat as a councillor in 2014. Following his return to the council he was re-elected as group leader in May 2016. [7]
In the 2015 Dissolution Honours,Mohammed was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) "for political service" as a councillor on Sheffield City Council. [8]
Mohammed served as a Liberal Democrats Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Yorkshire and the Humber from 2019 to 2020. [9] He lost his seat when the United Kingdom left the European Union on 31 January 2020.
Mohammed stood as the Liberal Democrat candidate in the 2016 Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough by-election,where he finished third with 6.1% of the vote. [10]
Mohammed was the Liberal Democrat candidate for the Sheffield Central constituency in the 2017 general election,coming fourth with 5.1% of the vote. [11]
Mohammed was selected in 2023 to contest former Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg's seat of Sheffield Hallam at the 2024 general election. [12] Sheffield Hallam was considered to be a marginal seat between Labour and the Liberal Democrats. [13] Mohammed finished second to Olivia Blake of Labour,with 30.4% of the vote. [12]
In December 2024,as part of the 2024 Political Peerages,it was announced that Mohammed would receive a life peerage to sit in the House of Lords. [14] He was created Baron Mohammed of Tinsley,of Sheffield in the County of South Yorkshire on 21 February 2025, [15] and sits as a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords. [16] On 1 May 2025,he made his maiden speech during a debate on the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill. [4]