Shabana Mahmood

Shabana Mahmood MP
Official portrait, 2020
Shadow Secretary of State for Justice
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 September 2023
Leader	Keir Starmer
Preceded by	Steve Reed
Labour Party National Campaign Coordinator
In office 9 May 2021 – 4 September 2023
Deputy	Conor McGinn (2021–2022)
Leader	Keir Starmer
Preceded by	Angela Rayner
Succeeded by	Pat McFadden
Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In office 8 May 2015 – 14 September 2015
Leader	Harriet Harman (Acting)
Preceded by	Chris Leslie
Succeeded by	Seema Malhotra
Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury
In office 7 October 2013 – 8 May 2015
Leader	Ed Miliband
Preceded by	Chris Leslie
Succeeded by	Alison McGovern
Shadow Minister for Higher Education
In office 7 October 2011 – 7 October 2013
Leader	Ed Miliband
Preceded by	Iain Wright
Succeeded by	Liam Byrne
Shadow Minister for Prisons
In office 8 October 2010 – 7 October 2011
Leader	Ed Miliband
Preceded by	Alan Duncan
Succeeded by	David Hanson
Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 May 2010
Preceded by	Clare Short
Majority	28,582 (67.9%)
Personal details
Born	(1980-09-17) 17 September 1980 (age 43) Small Heath, United Kingdom
Political party	Labour
Alma mater	Lincoln College, University of Oxford
Website	Official website

Shabana Mahmood (Urdu: شبانہ محمود; born 17 September 1980) is a British Labour Party politician and barrister who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Ladywood since 2010. She has served in the Shadow Cabinet of Keir Starmer as Shadow Secretary of State for Justice from September 2023. She previously served as National Campaign Co-ordinator from 2021 to 2023, and briefly as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 2015.

Mahmood graduated in 2002 with a BA from Lincoln College, University of Oxford, and went on to complete the Bar Vocational Course at the Inns of Court School of Law in 2003 after receiving a scholarship. As a barrister, her specialism is in professional indemnity. Her selection as the Labour Party candidate for Birmingham Ladywood caused some dissent in the constituency party, but was found by an inquiry led by a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party to be legitimate.

In 2010, Mahmood was elected as MP for Birmingham Ladywood, becoming one of the UK's first female Muslim MPs, along with Rushanara Ali and Yasmin Qureshi. Mahmood has spoken about how her faith is the most important thing in her life, and said that it is the motivation for her to undertake public service.