Ibrahim Taguri

Ibrahim Taguri (born September 1978) is a British community worker and political candidate. He is the former Race Equality Champion of the Liberal Democrats, announced in the role by party leader Nick Clegg on 21 January 2015 at a meeting of Ethnic Minority Liberal Democrats. In December 2013 Taguri was selected to succeed Sarah Teather MP as the Liberal Democrat candidate for the London constituency of Brent Central in the 2015 general election. who last fought in 2008.

Taguri attended Latymer Upper School, one of the last pupils to benefit from the Assisted Places Scheme, and went on to study English Literature and Language at the University of Reading. When he was in his early twenties he took up boxing and had his debut fight at the York Hall, Bethnal Green.

Political career For more than 15 years Taguri has worked for several London-based charities in campaigning and fundraising capacities (including within the hospice movement and with children's charities), and most recently for the Liberal Democrats, He states that his mission in politics is to eradicate child poverty in the UK by 2020. Taguri though was forced to stand down as fundraiser, race and equality champion and candidate when he was caught in a sting operation by The Daily Telegraph apparently accepting donations in exchange for access, as well as suggesting ways of funneling the donations to hide their origins.

Taguri has written for publications including the New Statesman and the Huffington Post, writing about issues that reflect his concerns, which include UK immigration policy, informed by his own experience as the eldest child of a working-class immigrant family; increasing parents' access to affordable childcare, improving educational standards and fighting poverty through radical tax reform, defending civil liberties in the UK and abroad, and environmental topics such as fracking.

Personal life Taguri is a supporter of Tottenham Hotspur FC.