[2] He was formerly Lord Mayor of Manchester for 2005–2006, and served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North West England from 2014 to 2017.

[1] He returned to education at Abraham Moss College[3] and got a degree in law from Manchester Polytechnic before qualifying as a solicitor in 1996.

[6][7] From 2000 to 2004, Khan was a member of the Department of Trade and Industry's Ethnic Minority Business Forum,[8] advising the then Secretary of State, Patricia Hewitt.

In January 2016, Khan was appointed by the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament as Special Representative to Muslim Communities.

Similar packages were received by fellow Labour MPs Mohammad Yasin, Rushanara Ali and Rupa Huq.

[27][28] In July 2019, Khan apologised for having shared on Facebook two years earlier a video of American comedian Jon Stewart talking about Benjamin Netanyahu.

The text under the video referred to an "Israel-British-Swiss-Rothschilds crime syndicate" and "mass murdering Rothschilds Israeli mafia criminal liars".

[32] One month later Khan resigned from the frontbench to vote for a Scottish National Party (SNP) motion demanding a ceasefire in Gaza.