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| Satvir Kaur Labour MP Southampton Test Photo: UK Parliament under licence |
In an investigation that we published recently, we showed the entry in the Electoral Commission records that linked the political funds of Southampton Labour MP Satvir Kaur to convicted criminal Shere Sattar.
Now we present more information about the links between Shere Sattar and the Labour Party, and not just in Southampton. Some of it may be circumstantial evidence.
What remains a fact, as reported by national newspapers The Times and The Independent, is that Southampton Labour MP Satvir Kaur, and other Labour MPs, plus the central Labour Party, all received money from convicted criminal Shere Sattar, despite him being:
- a convicted criminal
- expelled from the Labour Party
In 2022, Sattar was convicted with two of his family members of assaulting a man at the Acorn Industrial Estate in Southampton. Sattar was sentenced in May 2022. Later he was then expelled from the Labour Party.
Yet somehow, TWO YEARS LATER, Southampton Test Labour accepted TEN THOUSAND POUNDS from Sattar for Satvir Kaur's campaign, as shown below. The donation was stated in Satvir Kaur's register of interests as an MP.
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| Donation from Shere Sattar to Southampton Test Labour Party Source: Electoral Commission |
So was there any previous relationship between Satvir Kaur and Shere Sattar?
Firstly, they were both in the Labour Party, obviously.
We can go back further than when Sattar was convicted as a criminal with his family members. Why?
Because in 2016, shortly after the UK voted to leave the EU, Satvir Kaur was quoted in the Daily Echo in the same article with Shere Sattar. The headline on 30th June 2016, read:
"Muslim outdoor Eid prayer event cancelled due to far-right post-referendum protest".
This allegation was based on reports of demonstrations and counter-demonstrations. Neither report contained any evidence of any actual demonstration. Both reports did however contain facts that disproved what Kaur claimed, because Police records disproved her claims.
Kaur was then a councillor and Cabinet Member of the Labour Administration of Southampton City Council. She held executive power of public funds, and made comments in the article that did not stand up to the facts, as stated by the Echo.
Sattar was involved with Eastleigh politics, and an Eastleigh Town Councillor. Sattar resigned as a Town Councillor in May 2025, according to the Town Clerk.
Sattar was elected in an uncontested election on 5th May 2022, for Eastleigh (Cable) Ward. His trial finished on 12th April 2022. An uncontested election occurs without any actual vote.
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| Shere Sattar Uncontested Election Source: Eastleigh Borough Council |
Sattar was sentenced in May 2022 of the assault that took place in March 2021. He was sentenced and each of the three family members "handed a 12-month community order, including a requirement to complete 120 hours of unpaid work. They were each told to pay £300 costs and £500 compensation to their victim."
So Sattar stood for the Town Council either whilst, or after, being on trial.
Sattar then held an event at Kuti's Brasserie in June 2022, celebrating said the Daily Echo as "Eastleigh elects one of the first British-Bangladeshi councillors".
This celebration was all hot air, it seems, just as the allegations about cancelling Muslim prayers was hot air. All seemed to be designed to puff Sattar's profile.
And despite his conviction, councillors had attended the event, according to the Echo, including Labour Councillor Matt Renyard. One wonders if they knew of his conviction.
But what remains a fact is that Labour took money from a convicted criminal who had also been expelled from the Labour Party.