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| name = Paul Uppal<br />
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| office = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] <br> for [[Wolverhampton South West]]<br />
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| predecessor = [[Rob Marris]]<br />
| successor = [[Rob Marris]]<br />
| term_start = 6 May 2010<br />
| term_end = 30 March 2015<br />
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| birth_place = [[Birmingham]], England<br />
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| nationality = British<br />
| spouse = Kashmir Matto<br />
| party = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]<br />
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| residence = [[Birmingham]]<br />
| alma_mater = [[University of Warwick]] <br />
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| website = [http://pauluppal.co.uk pauluppal.co.uk]<br />
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'''Paul Singh Uppal'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-251093;jsessionid=C1BDEE356434C52A97FE48D13A519143|title=Uppal, Paul Singh, (born 14 June 1967), Small Business Commissioner, since 2017|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO}}</ref> (born 14 June 1967) is a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] politician from the United Kingdom. <br />
He was the Member of Parliament for [[Wolverhampton South West (UK Parliament constituency)|Wolverhampton South West]] from the [[2010 United Kingdom general election|2010 general election]] to [[2015 United Kingdom general election|2015]]. Uppal attempted to win the seat back at the [[2017 United Kingdom general election|2017 general election]]<br />
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On 20 December 2017, the government announced that he was to be the first [[Small Business Commissioner]].<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Uppal was born in [[Birmingham]], to Surjit Singh Uppal, a magistrate, and Balbir Kaur on 14 June 1967. His parents are Sikhs of East African descent.<ref name=conservatives>[http://www.conservatives.com/People/Members_of_Parliament/Uppal_Paul.aspx Paul Uppal] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100518120454/http://www.conservatives.com/People/Members_of_Parliament/Uppal_Paul.aspx |date=18 May 2010 }}, Conservative Party website.</ref> He attended [[Harborne Hill Comprehensive School]] and then studied three [[A-level]]s in Politics, History and Sociology at [[Matthew Boulton College]]. He studied Politics and Sociology at the [[University of Warwick]].<br />
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He married his wife Kashmir, a lawyer, on 17 November 1991 in Derby. They have three children together. He holds a [[season ticket]] for [[Wolverhampton Wanderers]] Football Club, and is a trustee of the second largest [[Gurudwara]] ([[Sikh]] Temple) in Wolverhampton.<ref name=conservatives/><br />
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==Political career==<br />
Uppal was selected as Conservative Party candidate for [[Birmingham Yardley]] less than three months before the [[2005 United Kingdom general election|2005 general election]]. The seat was traditionally a Conservative-[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] marginal, but became a three-way marginal at the [[1992 United Kingdom general election|1992 general election]] and a Labour-Liberal Democrat marginal since the [[1997 United Kingdom general election|1997 general election]], with the Conservatives pushed into an increasingly distant third place. Uppal came third in 2005, winning 2,970 votes, with Liberal Democrat [[John Hemming (politician)|John Hemming]] replacing the retiring Labour MP [[Estelle Morris]].<br />
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In February 2007, Uppal was selected as the Wolverhampton South West Conservative candidate in an [[Conservative Party (UK) parliamentary primaries|open primary]] held at [[Molineux Stadium]], in which all constituents were entitled to vote. The seat had once been a safe Conservative seat, held first by [[Enoch Powell]] from 1950 to 1974 and then by [[Nicholas Budgen]], but became a Labour marginal, held by [[Jenny Jones (Labour politician)|Jenny Jones]] in 1997. [[Rob Marris]] held it from 2001 onwards, though the Labour majorities gradually reduced at each election, Uppal won the seat from the incumbent Labour MP Rob Marris with 16,344 votes and a majority of 691.<ref name="TOI">{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Priti-Patel-is-UKs-first-Gujarati-woman-MP/articleshow/5905176.cms|title=Priti Patel is UK's first Gujarati woman MP|last=Ray|first=Ashis|date=8 May 2010|work=The Times of India|accessdate=12 May 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/election2010/results/constituency/f27.stm|title=Election results: Wolverhampton South West|work=BBC News|accessdate=12 May 2010}}</ref><br />
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In July 2010, he was elected Chairman of the All Party Urban Development Group. In October 2011, he voted against a referendum on the UK's membership of [[European Union]]. In September 2012, he was appointed [[Parliamentary Private Secretary|PPS]] to [[David Willetts]] at the [[Department for Business, Innovation and Skills]].<br />
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In the run up to the [[2015 United Kingdom general election|2015 general election]], both Uppal, his main opponent Marris, and even [[UKIP]] agreed that immigration was no longer a key issue in the seat which was once held by the controversial MP [[Enoch Powell]].<ref name=amelia>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/29/immigration-enoch-powell-wolverhampton-south-west-jobs-economy-more-important|title=Immigration: in Enoch Powell's former seat jobs and the economy matter more|last=Gentleman|first=Amelia|work=The Guardian|date=29 April 2015|accessdate=1 May 2015}}</ref> Uppal highlighted the improvement in community relations whilst Marris expressed concern about zero-hour contracts, foodbanks and workers earning less than a living wage.<ref name=amelia/><br />
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Uppal was narrowly defeated at the [[2015 United Kingdom general election|2015 general election]], when Marris regained the seat with a majority of 801. Uppal stood as a candidate in the same seat at the [[2017 United Kingdom general election|2017 snap general election]] and despite increasing his party's vote share by 3%, the Labour vote increased by 6.1%, and Uppal consequently lost by 2,185 votes.<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130103053048/http://www.pauluppal.com/ Official website]<br />
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