Sayeeda Hussain Warsi is the name of a daring woman who resigned from her post on August 2014 as a refusal to support the 2014 British policy on the Israel Gaza conflict. Her resignation is not to be taken lightly, as Sayeeda Warsi holds an honourable position in the British cabinet and is revered by the British politicians. She has served as a British Pakistani solicitor, politician and life peer who was positioned as a Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party from may 2010 till September 2012 and as a senior member of David Cameron’s Cabinet till August 2014.
Sayeeda Warsi was termed as among the 500 world’s most influential Muslims by the Middle East think tank, The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre’ and has also been at the top of the Britain’s Muslim women power list. Sayeeda was brought up in West Yorkshire. Her father was an immigrant from Bewail, Gujar Khan. She is of the Jat caste. Her ancestors are from the southern Pakistan. Her father started as a mill worker and now is an owner of a bed manufacturing company. Sayeeda adopted conservative principles like her father.
Sayeeda gave up her job as a solicitor to run for the parliament, at which she failed. She was given a life peerage in 2007 and served as the Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion and Social Action. She became the first female Muslim to sit at the cabinet table. She wore a traditional South Asian shalwar kameez at her first meeting at Downing Street. She took responsibility as a Senior Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Minister for Faith and Communities. She resigned from this post recently in August 2014.