Imran Ahmad-Khan

In his maiden speech in January 2020, Ahmad Khan paid tribute to his predecessor and spoke of his pleasure at being part of "a vibrant and dynamic pack of Yorkshire MPs". He called for equality of opportunity needs to be made real and more patriotism: "I see perhaps more clearly than most the deep and enduring importance of core British values such as compassion, tolerance and fairness, especially at a time when those values are perceived as under threat in many parts of our world."

Ahmad-Khan supports the Yorkshire Devolution Movement and had called for the devolved West Yorkshire authority to be based in Wakefield. In Rishi Sunak's 2020 Budget, West Yorkshire was allocated £1.8bn with a £317m investment in transport and the election of a West Yorkshire Mayor.

He was selected after the withdrawal of a candidate whose racist and sexist social media posts were discovered. Labour's incumbent MP Creagh said: "Will the next candidate they parachute in be any better? Don’t hold your breath." Ahmad Khan responded by taking part in a skydive over the town and retorted he was "a local lad born and bred in Wakefield, of Wakefield stock. I couldn't figuratively parachute in—and I didn't want to disappoint her—so I decided I would literally parachute in."

Ahmad-Khan is an advocate of Britain's departure from the European Union. In an interview with Channel 4 following his election, he attributed his success during the 2019 general election to "Islington Remainers" who had branded Leave voters "stupid, uneducated, racist or wrong".

He has two brothers: Karim Ahmad Khan QC is a barrister specialising in international human rights law, and appointed Assistant Secretary General of the U.N. in 2018 by the United Nations Security Council to lead an investigation into alleged crimes committed by Da'esh/ISIL in Iraq. Khalid Ahmad Khan is a lawyer based in Oman who was winner of the Middle East General Counsel of the Year award in 2017, and was named one of the most influential in-house lawyers in the Middle East in Legal 500's GC Powerlist: Middle East 2019.

Ahmad Khan defeated incumbent Labour MP Mary Creagh, to become the first Conservative MP for the constituency in 87 years. Proclaiming himself not a career politician, he told The Yorkshire Post: "I've never stood for any public office, not even so much as municipal dog catcher". He decided to stand after seeing the seeds in Britain of the loss of democracy he had seen abroad. Wakefield voted almost 2-to-1 in favour of leaving the European Union in the 2016 referendum and was a target seat for the Conservatives.

Imran Nasir Ahmad Khan (born 6 September 1973) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Wakefield since the 2019 general election. He is a supporter of Brexit and attributes his election to Wakefield voters' support for leaving the European Union in 2016.