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LONDON: Britain’s first female Sikh MP, Preet Kaur Gill, has lost her position on the Labour front bench in a shadow cabinet reshuffle and been demoted to backbench MP.Gill (50), whose family hail from Jamsher Khera in Jalandhar, Punjab, made history when she won Birmingham Edgbaston in the 2017 general election.She quickly climbed the ranks to shadow secretary of state for international development, a position renamed as shadow cabinet minister for international development in November 2021 after the department was abolished.Another PIO MP, Lisa Nandy, has also been...