Kuldip Singh Sahota, Baron Sahota is a British

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Councillor for Malinslee & Dawley Bank on

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, who has served as Leader of the council.Report by Sue Austin. Sahota was born in India of

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Punjabi heritage, the son of a foundry worker who emigrated to England in 1957, Sahota joining his father in 1966. Sahota worked for 15 years at the factory of

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before going into full-time political work and going into private business. Sahota, who had been active in his trade union at work in industry, was elected as

Councillor for Malinslee & Dawley Bank on

. He served as Leader of the Council between 2011 and 2015. In October 2022, it was announced that he would receive a

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in the

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. On 2 November 2022, he was created Baron Sahota, ''of Telford in the County of Shropshire''. Sahota is married to Sukhi and has two sons. He assists in his wife's restaurant business. They live in

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, Telford. In 2019 he wrote and produced a film documentary taking an in-depth look into the

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of 1919.

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