Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed

Who is Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed?

Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed is a member of the British House of Lords. He was appointed on the recommendation of Prime Minister Tony Blair in 1998. Along with Lord Alli, Baroness Warsi and Baroness Uddin, Lord Ahmed is one of the four current Muslim peers in the United Kingdom. Many of his political activities relate to the Muslim community both in the UK and abroad and he has often attracted controversy. He was suspended for a time from the Labour Party in 2012 after he was misquoted as placing a bounty on U.S. President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush.

In 2013, Lord Ahmed was suspended again, this time for antisemitism; stemming from a report in The Times that he blamed a Jewish conspiracy for a prison sentence he received following a fatal motorway crash. The newspaper revealed that he appeared on Pakistani television and stated that he was imprisoned in 2009 because of pressure on the courts from Jews “who own newspapers and TV channels". He resigned from the Labour Party on 13 May.