| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Lord Sahota | |
| Office1: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
| Term Start1: | 2 November 2022 Life peerage |
| Birth Name: | Kuldip Singh Sahota |
| Birth Date: | 2 May 1951 |
| Birth Place: | India |
| Nationality: | British |
| Children: | 2 |
| Party: | Labour |
Kuldip Singh Sahota, Baron Sahota (born 2 May 1951),[1] is a British Labour Party politician and life peer.
Sahota was born in India of Sikh Punjabi heritage, the son of a foundry worker who emigrated to England in 1957; he joined his father in 1966. Sahota worked for 15 years at the factory of GKN Sankey in Telford before going into full-time political work and going into private business.[2]
Sahota, who had been active in his trade union at work in industry, was elected as a Labour councillor for Malinslee and Dawley Bank on Telford and Wrekin Council, serving from 2001 to 2023. He served as the leader of the council between 2011 and 2016.[2]
He was the Labour candidate for Ludlow at the 2019 general election. In November 2019, at a hustings held in Church Stretton, the Conservative candidate (and incumbent MP) Philip Dunne told Sahota that he was "talking through his turban".[3]
In 2021 it was reported that Sahota was on the shortlist to be Labour candidate at the North Shropshire by-election, but in fact had not actually applied.[4]
In October 2022, it was announced that he would receive a life peerage in the 2022 Special Honours.[5] On 2 November 2022, he was created Baron Sahota, of Telford in the County of Shropshire.[6]
Sahota is married to Sukhi and has two sons. He assists in his wife's restaurant business. They live in Ketley, Telford.[2]
In 2019 he wrote and produced a film documentary taking an in-depth look into the Amritsar Massacre of 1919.[2]