Saqib Bhatti
Saqib Bhatti | |
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Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Shadow Minister for Education | |
| Assumed office 23 July 2025 | |
| Leader | Kemi Badenoch |
| Preceded by | Neil O'Brien |
| Shadow Minister for Culture, Media and Sport | |
| In office 4 November 2024 – 23 July 2025 | |
| Leader | Kemi Badenoch |
| Preceded by | Luke Evans |
| Succeeded by | Louie French |
| Shadow Minister for Health and Social Care | |
| In office 19 July 2024 – 6 November 2024 | |
| Leader | Rishi Sunak |
| Preceded by | Preet Kaur Gill |
| Succeeded by | Caroline Johnson Luke Evans |
| Shadow Minister for Science, Innovation and Technology | |
| In office 19 July 2024 – 6 November 2024 | |
| Leader | Rishi Sunak |
| Preceded by | Chi Onwurah |
| Succeeded by | Ben Spencer |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Tech and the Digital Economy | |
| In office 13 November 2023 – 5 July 2024 | |
| Prime Minister | Rishi Sunak |
| Preceded by | Paul Scully |
| Succeeded by | The Baroness Jones of Whitchurch |
| Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party for Business | |
| In office 30 September 2022 – 13 November 2023 | |
| Leader | Liz Truss Rishi Sunak |
| Member of Parliament for Meriden and Solihull East Meriden (2019–2024) | |
| Assumed office 12 December 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Caroline Spelman |
| Majority | 4,584 (10.4%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Mohammad Saqib Bhatti 18 June 1985 Walsall, West Midlands, England |
| Party | Conservative |
| Spouse |
Aminah Bhatti (m. 2020) |
| Children | 3 |
| Education | King Edward's School |
| Alma mater | London School of Economics (LLB) |
| Occupation |
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| Website | www |
Mohammad Saqib Bhatti MBE (born 18 June 1985) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Meriden and Solihull East, formerly Meriden, since the 2019 general election. Saqib currently serves as Shadow Minister for Education. His previous positions in the Conservative Shadow Government are as Shadow Minister for Science, Innovation and Technology, Shadow Minister for Health and Social Care and Shadow Minister for Culture, Media and Sport. He previously served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Tech and the Digital Economy from 2023 to 2024 and as the Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party for Business from 2022 to 2023.
Prior to serving in parliament, Bhatti founded the pro-Brexit group Muslims for Britain, which advocated for leaving the European Union (EU) in the 2016 referendum.