Afzal Khan was elected as the Labour MP for Manchester Rusholme in 2024. He previously served as the MP for Manchester Gorton from 2017 until 2024. Afzal served as Shadow Minister for Immigration (2017-2019) and Shadow Foreign Office Minister (2019-2020). When Sir Keir Starmer became Leader of the Labour Party, he appointed Afzal as Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Commons and then Shadow Minister for Legal Aid. Afzal served as Shadow Minister for Exports in Labour’s Business and Trade Team from September 2023 until November 2023. He is also a Vice Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims, and a member of various other All-Party Groups. Recently he has been appointed as the United Kingdom’s Trade Envoy to the Republic of Turkey.