![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/ex-telford-council-leader-set-to-enter-house-of-lords/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/127518980_kuldip1.png&description=Image caption, Kuldip Sahota will enter the House of Lords as a Labour peerA councillor who helps out in his wife's cafe says he is not ready to abandon his apron completely as he prepares to swap it for the ermine of the House of Lords.Kuldip Sahota will be taking an oath to the King as he is introduced in the chamber on Monday.A former leader of Telford and Wrekin Council, he described himself as "Telford through and through".He said lovely messages were inevitably accompanied by a bit of stick.The 71-year-old works at the family cafe in Wellington market and said some traders had enjoyed calling him "your lordship" as he wiped down tables.He said his elevation to the House of Lords was delayed by the death of the Queen, but since news was released the phone "hasn't stopped"."I hope they know what they're getting into, because I am a radical politician," he said.Image caption, Mr Sahota said he had enjoyed banter with some of the market traders since he was named a LordMr Sahota, who will become Lord Sahota from Monday, came to the UK from India at the age of 14 and went to Hadley School before spending 15 years working at the local GKN factory.He said Telford, and the UK was very different when he was a teenager."It was a different time, you didn't have much expectation," he said."I'm from the minority community and there was a great deal of racism. There weren't many ethnic minority politicians around, and to go to the House of Lords? Get out of it!"Society has changed over the last 50 years and I suppose I'm a product of that."After leaving GKN he set up his own business, and has served on Telford and Wrekin Council for two decades. Image caption, Kuldip Sahota now works at the family-run cafe in Wellington, TelfordHe joined the Labour Party, but said his ambition initially went no further than becoming a councillor.Since then he has served as council leader and sat on the board of the West Midlands branch of the Labour Party.He also promised to continue to spe){kind=link}
A councillor who helps out in his wife’s cafe says he is not ready to abandon his apron completely as he prepares to swap it for the ermine of the House of Lords.
Kuldip Sahota will be taking an oath to the King as he is introduced in the chamber on Monday.
A former leader of Telford and Wrekin Council, he described himself as “Telford through and through”.
He said lovely messages were inevitably accompanied by a bit of stick.
The 71-year-old works at the family cafe in Wellington market and said some traders had enjoyed calling him “your lordship” as he wiped down tables.