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Jan 16

Sayeeda Warsi: Baroness of the Punjab

Published in The Daily Telegraph, Monday 16th January

By Peter Oborne

As the traumatic events of the weekend show all too vividly, Pakistan is one of the most turbulent and unstable countries in the world, and a diplomatic nightmare.

But Britain has a secret weapon – Sayeeda Warsi. With her Punjabi heritage, local languages and easy manner, the Conservative Party chairman can reach parts of the Pakistan political system that other government ministers cannot.

As I witnessed at first hand last week, David Cameron has licensed Baroness Warsi to operate as Britain’s unofficial envoy. The Tory chairman flew into a first-rate crisis set off by the potentially deadly stand-off between government and military. The defence secretary had just been fired.

Within hours she was at the Pakistan foreign office for a meeting lasting well over an hour with Pakistan’s newly promoted – and extremely beautiful – foreign secretary, Hinna Rabbani Khar. Just 34 years old, the University of Massachusetts-educated Khar is the latest star phenomenon to hit the Islamabad scene and is suddenly being tipped as a potential successor to Asif Ali Zardari, should the government fall this week.

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Jan 2

Sayeeda Warsi in The Independent

Lib Dem president accused of ‘slagging off the coalition’

Published in The Independent, 1st Jan 2012

By Matt Chorley

The Tory party chairwoman, Baroness Warsi, has accused her Liberal Democrat counterpart of treating the coalition like “a bad episode of Come Dine with Me” by enjoying the good things on offer and “then slagging it off afterwards”.

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Dec 21

Sayeeda Warsi: Conservative compassion in action

Published in Politics First Magazine, Tuesday 20th December 2011

By Marcus Papadopoulos

In the short time that Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, Minister without Portfolio and Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party, has been in Parliament (she was made a working peer in 2007), she has quickly earned a reputation for being a plain speaking and a “saying things as she sees them” politician–attributes respected by much of the public. However, her direct approach to politics is eclipsed by her two notable and historical achievements.

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Dec 20

Sayeeda Warsi: Happy Chanukah

Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party and Minister without Portfolio Sayeeda Warsi has sent her best wishes to those celebrating the Jewish festival of Chanukah.

Sayeeda Warsi said:

‘It gives me great pleasure as Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party to send my best wishes to everyone celebrating this very special time in the Jewish calendar.

‘I know that Jewish communities across the country will be joining together to light candles and spend time with their families to mark this occasion, the ‘festival of lights’.

‘This is a festival where we can all celebrate the triumph of hope over adversity, and in these difficult times, take inspiration from the messages of light, hope and kindness, which are such a big part of the Jewish faith. ‘Above all, Chanukah is a time for people of different faiths to come together and look to 2012 with renewed hope.

‘Happy Chanukah.’

Dec 14

Sayeeda Warsi: Forced marriage is inhumane, unacceptable – and not illegal in the UK

Forced marriage is inhumane, unacceptable – and not illegal in the UK

It is a disgrace that forced marriage is only a matter for civil law – I welcome Theresa May taking steps to change this

Published on Comment is Free, The Guardian, Wednesday 14th December 2011

By Sayeeda Warsi

A 15-year-old girl is midway through her GCSEs when she is taken out of school. Little do her classmates know, she has been packed off abroad to marry a man she has never met, a man to whom she has been “promised” since birth. They never see her again.

This sounds like the stuff of a bygone era, of faraway places, even fiction. But, in 2011, here in Britain, the forcing of women or girls into marriage is a sad reality for thousands of people.

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Dec 9

Regional Tour – North West and North Wales

On the final regional tour of 2011 Sayeeda started the day by visiting Cheadle to meet the team and hear about the campaign to restore Gatley Clock before dropping in to Heald Green Mosque to meet the community.

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Dec 2

Regional Tour – South West

Starting the penultimate tour of the year, Sayeeda travelled to Stroud to meet with Neil Carmichael MP for a tour of Lister Shearing Ltd, a local business who has benefited from the investment made by the local council into the regeneration zone. Read more

Nov 25

Regional Tour – South East

Starting the day in Reading, Sayeeda met with the local community as she spoke at a women’s empowerment seminar before travelling down to speak at the North West Hampshire CWO Christmas Lunch.

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Nov 19

Regional Tour – North West and North East

Starting a two day tour of the North West and North East, Sayeeda started her day in Pendle at the Ace Centre with Andrew Stephenson MP before going live on air on Pendle Community Radio.

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Nov 14

Sayeeda Warsi: Lecture to the European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism

Thank you very much. I’m delighted to be here. Let me start by thanking James Arbuthnot and Denis Macshane for inviting me.

I know in the past Jim Murphy has given this lecture on behalf of the Labour Party. And two years ago, you had Nick Clegg representing the Lib Dems. So I take very seriously that you’ve invited me to speak for the Conservative Party.

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