Mohammad Ali Miraj (born October 1974)[1] is a British former Conservative Party parliamentary candidate, chartered accountant, and part-time DJ from London.
[9] He was the only ethnic minority candidate standing in Wales, when he was described as "a bit of a character, doing passable imitations of then leader William Hague".
[3][15][16] In the end, Priti Patel was selected; as an Asian woman this went against Miraj's prediction, but he commented, "This is a bright day for the party and indicative of progress.
[22] He was a trustee of the Campaign to Protect Rural England from July 2009 to June 2014,[1] and on the board of the UK Friends of The Abraham Fund Initiatives from May 2009 to February 2013.
[7] When working as an auditor at the Ministry of Sound in the late 1990s, he became interested in house music and attended a course at Point Blank DJ School in Hoxton.
Miraj founded and runs the annual Contrarian Prize,[31] awarded to Michael Woodford in 2013, Clive Stafford Smith in 2014[32] and Simon Danczuk in 2015.