Paul Uppal
Paul Uppal | |
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Wolverhampton South West | |
In office 6 May 2010 – 30 March 2015 | |
Preceded by | Rob Marris |
Succeeded by | Rob Marris |
Personal details | |
Born | Birmingham, England | 14 June 1967
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse | Kashmir Matto |
Children | 3 |
Residence | Birmingham |
Alma mater | University of Warwick |
Website | pauluppal.co.uk |
Paul Singh Uppal[1] (born 14 June 1967) is a Conservative Party politician from the United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South West from the 2010 general election to 2015. Uppal attempted to win the seat back at the 2017 general election
On 20 December 2017, the government announced that he was to be the first Small Business Commissioner.
Early life
Uppal was born in
He married his wife Kashmir, a lawyer, on 17 November 1991 in Derby. They have three children together. He holds a
Political career
Uppal was selected as Conservative Party candidate for
In February 2007, Uppal was selected as the Wolverhampton South West Conservative candidate in an open primary held at Molineux Stadium, in which all constituents were entitled to vote. The seat had once been a safe Conservative seat, held first by Enoch Powell from 1950 to 1974 and then by Nicholas Budgen, but became a Labour marginal, held by Jenny Jones in 1997. Rob Marris held it from 2001 onwards, though the Labour majorities gradually reduced at each election, Uppal won the seat from the incumbent Labour MP Rob Marris with 16,344 votes and a majority of 691.[3][4]
In July 2010, he was elected Chairman of the All Party Urban Development Group. In October 2011, he voted against a referendum on the UK's membership of European Union. In September 2012, he was appointed PPS to David Willetts at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
In the run up to the
Uppal was narrowly defeated at the 2015 general election, when Marris regained the seat with a majority of 801. Uppal stood as a candidate in the same seat at the 2017 snap general election and despite increasing his party's vote share by 3%, the Labour vote increased by 6.1%, and Uppal consequently lost by 2,185 votes.
External links
- Official website
- Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Contributions in Parliament at Hansard
- Voting record at Public Whip
- Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou
References
- ^ "Uppal, Paul Singh, (born 14 June 1967), Small Business Commissioner, since 2017". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO.
- ^ a b Paul Uppal Archived 18 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Conservative Party website.
- ^ Ray, Ashis (8 May 2010). "Priti Patel is UK's first Gujarati woman MP". The Times of India. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
- ^ "Election results: Wolverhampton South West". BBC News. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
- ^ a b Gentleman, Amelia (29 April 2015). "Immigration: in Enoch Powell's former seat jobs and the economy matter more". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 May 2015.