Saqib was born in 1985, in Walsall, West Midlands where he grew up and attended school. His father is a chartered accountant and runs his own firm of chartered accountants.
He attended King Edwards VI School for boys before reading Law at the London School of Economics where he graduated with LLB (Hons). Bhatti also holds an honorary doctorate from Aston University in Business Administration and was awarded MBE in 2020 for Services to Diversity and Inclusion in Business Communities.
In 2013 Bhatti joined the board of the Asian Business Chamber of Commerce (then IAB) and was President from 2014 until 2018. He then served as its Honorary Chairman from 2018 to 2020.
He was also Director of the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership responsible for business support. In October 2015 he launched the Growth Hub, the premier access point for business support, on behalf of the GBS LEP. The Greater Birmingham and Solihull LEP area has enjoyed the largest number of start-ups outside of London since 2014. In 2016 he was recognised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales as a Rising Star.
In 2019, Saqib was elected as the Member of Parliament for Meriden. Saqib was appointed Private Parliamentary Secretary to Liz Truss, the then Secretary of State to the Department for International Trade in 2020. He then moved to the Department for Health and Social Care where he served as Private Parliamentary Secretary to the Secretary of State, Sajid Javid. He has been the Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party for Business since September 2022.