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Shabana Mahmood is Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice.

The former barrister is a Labour MP for the Birmingham Ladywood seat., having won the constituency for the first time in 2010 when she became one of the UK's first female Muslim MPs.

Also in 2010, Shabana was promoted to the Shadow Home Office Team as a Junior Minister and more recently became the Shadow Minister for Higher Education.

Before becoming an MP, she practised as an Employed Barrister, specialising in professional indemnity litigation.