Article 5Y2BV Imran Ahmad Khan: Tory MP in sexual assault case had oddball reputation

Imran Ahmad Khan: Tory MP in sexual assault case had oddball reputation

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Helen Pidd North of England editor
from World news | The Guardian on (#5Y2BV)

Complainant says they tried to warn Conservative party before Ahmad Khan won election in Wakefield

Imran Ahmad Khan liked to be noticed. Wandering around Westminster in a pinstripe suit with a cane, he looked and sounded like a Conservative MP from another era, calling colleagues old boy" and dear chap", despite only being in his 40s - like a tinpot Churchill", as one of his colleagues puts it. He was prone to ostentatious displays of wealth, sometimes parking a Rolls-Royce in the parliamentary car park.

In his 2019 victory speech he paid special tribute to his mother, whom he called ma-mah", like a member of the royal family. He is close to his family, particularly his brothers Karim and Khaled, both lawyers, the former a prosecutor at the international criminal court in The Hague.

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