Naushabah Khan
Naushabah Parveen Khan is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Gillingham and Rainham since 2024.
Early life
Khan was born at the now defunct All Saints' Hospital in Chatham and grew up in Gillingham. She attended Fort Pitt Grammar School and Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Birmingham in 2007. She went on to complete a graduate diploma in Law at BPP Law School in 2013.Political career
Khan unsuccessfully stood as the Labour candidate in Rochester and Strood during the 2014 by-election and the 2015 general election, finishing third on both occasions, with 16.8% and 19.8% of the vote respectively. In 2024, she was elected as the MP for Gillingham and Rainham, defeating incumbent Conservative MP Rehman Chishti by 15,562 votes to 11,590, a majority of 9.6%.In September 2025, Khan was appointed as the parliamentary private secretary to the Cabinet Office.