A skilled local operator whose Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 is one of the most useful Private Members' Bills in a generation, weighed down by communal politics flirtations and the worst mileage claims record IPSA has ever found.

He drew second in the 2016 PMB ballot, partnered with Crisis, and steered the Homelessness Reduction Bill through both Houses to Royal Assent in April 2017. It stretched the statutory "threatened with homelessness" window from 28 days to 56 days and imposed prevention and relief duties on councils for all eligible applicants, not just those in priority need. The Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act 2023 followed, targeting abuses in exempt accommodation. In July 2024 he held Harrow East with an 11,680 majority on a 53.3% share, one of a handful of Conservatives whose share rose while the national party collapsed. CBE in 2023, Padma Shri from the Indian government in 2020, chair of the APPG on British Hindus, joint executive secretary of the 1922 Committee for nine years and its Chair from July 2024 after beating Geoffrey Clifton-Brown 61 to 37. He also chairs the Backbench Business Committee from September 2024.

Yet the IPSA Compliance Officer found in March 2015 that he had filed 732 inaccurate mileage claims, averaging nearly twice the Google Maps distance and in some cases claiming ten miles for a two mile journey. He appealed, and the determination stood. He hosted Tapan Ghosh, the Hindu Defence Force founder who described all Muslims as "jihadis" and defended the Rohingya genocide, at a Commons event in October 2017 and refused to condemn him when HOPE Not Hate and the Muslim Council of Britain demanded an apology. He chairs the APPG on Azerbaijan and has taken at least seven free trips to Baku since 2011, telling the Eye to Eye podcast in July 2020 that he had "put down positions on behalf of good friends in Azerbaijan" who "fed the information through the Azerbaijan embassy". Voted against same sex marriage in 2013, against LGBT inclusive Relationships and Sex Education regulations in 2019, and publicly called for Section 28 to be reinstated in 2012. Signatory to the November 2020 Common Sense Group letter attacking the National Trust over "cultural Marxist dogma". Voted Aye on every stage of the Rwanda Bill and No on the Leadbeater assisted dying bill at second reading.

The composite picture is of a constituency machine politician who earned his Harrow East majority by being everywhere, from Swaminarayan Neasden to every synagogue in the seat, and who has converted that durable local base into serious institutional power inside the parliamentary party. The legislative ledger has one rare PMB triumph on his side and a long pattern on the other: mileage claims that turned heads even at IPSA, undisguised closeness to the Azerbaijani state, and a willingness to platform sectarian figures rather than risk losing a slice of his coalition. Three decades of municipal politics taught him how to count votes. He has not learned to count limits.