Ali Milani

Ali Milani (; born July 1994) is a British author, political commentator, and Labour Party politician. In 2019, he unsuccessfully stood as the party's candidate in Uxbridge and South Ruislip, a seat which was held by the then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Milani was a councillor for Heathrow Villages in the London Borough of Hillingdon from 2018 to 2022. He has previously served as a Vice President of the National Union of Students.

Milani was born in Tehran, Iran, and moved to the UK at the age of five. He studied International Relations at Brunel University London, where he was President of the Union of Brunel Students from 2015 until 2017. In 2017, Milani became the Vice President for Union Development at the National Union of Students (NUS), and he was re-elected in 2018.

Milani became a local councillor in Hillingdon in 2018, and was chosen in September as the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Uxbridge and South Ruislip. He stood against Johnson in 2019 and lost, with a 37.6% vote share, compared to Johnson's 52.6%. ''Al Jazeera'' reported that Milani's views "tilt heavily to the Labour Party's left" and ''Vice'' stated that Milani is affiliated with the grassroots left-wing movement Momentum.

In 2022, Milani published ''The Unlikely Candidate'', which covered his experience as a political candidate and commentary on the British political system. ''The Speaker'' described the book as "both a cautionary tale and a message of hope." Provided by Wikipedia