Murad Qureshi
Before becoming an Assembly Member, Murad worked in Housing and Regeneration for 15 years. His biggest achievement during this time was to help establish Housing Associations and Housing Co-ops in the East End in response to chronic housing needs. Murad himself lives in a housing co-operative.
Previously, Murad was an Executive Committee member of SERA (1994-2000) campaigning on green issues throughout the 1990s. He is especially keen on promoting the use of renewables as an alternative energy source and on promoting energy efficiency initiatives to deal with fuel poverty.
Murad is a former member of the City of Westminster Council (1998-2006) and entered local politics through his family involvement in order to represent the neighbourhoods he grew up in on issues such as transport and the environment.
Murad is a Board Member of BRAC UK, an International NGO that is part of the BRAC family. The organisation seeks to alleviate poverty and empower the poor in the UK and abroad. It is currently raising funds for relief and rehabilitation work in the cyclone affected areas of Bangladesh.
As an avid sportsman Murad enjoys cricket and football and still continues to play for local pub teams. He has campaigned for more open spaces and playing fields in London and is looking forward to London hosting the Olympics in 2012.
At the Assembly, Murad is Chair of the Environment Committee, Chair of the London Waterways Commission, and a Member of the Standards and Budget Committees. He is also a member of Unison.
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- Team announced for London Assembly elections (22 Mar 2012)The London Co-operative Party has announced its candidates for the elections of 3 May for the London Assembly. Three new candidates will be joining the five existing Labour & Co-operative Assembly Members of the Assembly. The new candidates include former Member of Parliament Andrew Dismore, fighting the key Tory-held battleground of Barnet & Camden. In [...]
- Energy co-operatives urgently needed in London (11 Aug 2011)As part of our consultation on our manifesto for the 2012 London elections, Assembly Member Murad Qureshi reports on the opportunity for co-operative energy in the capital. Londoners like the rest of the country are going to be hit this Autumn with record rises of up to almost 20 per cent in energy costs to [...]
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Not much hope for Afghanistan @NATO summit as real issues ignored (15 May 2012)
Durand line between Pakistan & Afghanistan, the real dispute between them Afghanistan is set to dominate the discussions of NATO 2012 Chicago summit this coming weekend. This all the while when Afghanistan is a tragedy and not one the West is ever going to end particularly if its not going to deal with key issues [...]
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Thames Estuary airport “blown out of the water” @ICE (10 May 2012)
During the recent GLA election period we had a debate at the Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) where we heard why a Thames Estuary airport is not a viable option for providing additional national hub runway capacity for London and the South-East. Firstly this is not a new idea at all. Different versions of the same idea have been [...]
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Don’t let the Tories get away with it (2 May 2012)
On 3rd May Londoners face a choice between a Labour Mayor and a Tory Mayor. That choice is this simple, and its a clear choice that matters on May 3. It’s a choice between a Conservative party that will carry on ripping off Londoners and a Labour party determined to make you better off. The [...]
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HS2 community consultation deeply flawed already (1 May 2012)
the destruction of HS2 on Regents Park Estate At the GLA’s London Assembly, Transport Committee meeting last summer when we investigate the issues around HS2 for London we did not get any representative from HS2 to come along to justify such a major investment even though invited to do so. This when we are quite [...]
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London Elects sanctions islamophobic material (26 Apr 2012)
Having had a number of constituents complain to me about an offending islamophobic remark in the GLA election booklet on page 9, I have written a letter of complaint to London Elects, the election commissioners of the GLA election on the 3rd of May. The offending quote from Robert West reads ” I’m backing BNP because they [...]
