What is Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi?
{{BLP sources|date=September 2013}} [[File:Baronness Sayeeda Warsi crop.jpg|thumb|150px|Baroness Warsi has been the Chairman of the UK Conservative Party]] '''Sayeeda Hussain Warsi, Baroness Warsi''' (surname pronounced ''VAR-SEY''; born 28 March 1971 in [[Dewsbury]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], [[England]]) is a [[British people|British]] [[politician]] and [[lawyer]]. She was born to [[Pakistan]]i [[immigrant]]s and is a member of the [[House of Lords]]. She has been the Chairman of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] and [[Minister Without Portfolio]] in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat [[coalition]] government. She was the first [[Islam|Muslim]] woman to be a member of the British cabinet. She lives in [[Wakefield]], [[West Yorkshire]].<ref>[http://www.conservatives.com/People/Peers/Warsi_Sayeeda.aspx Conservatives]</ref> ==Personal life== In 1990 Warsi married her cousin Naeem in an arranged marriage. She and her first husband divorced in December 2007. On 20 August 2009, she married Iftikhar Azam. == References == {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Warsi, Sayeeda}} [[Category:1971 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:English lawyers]] [[Category:British Muslims]] [[Category:Politicians from Yorkshire]] [[Category:Conservative Life Peers]] {{bio-stub}}