Sarah Owen
Sarah Owen | |||||||||||
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陳美麗[1] | |||||||||||
 Official portrait, 2021 | |||||||||||
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland | |||||||||||
| Assumed office 23 July 2026 | |||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Andy Burnham | ||||||||||
| Preceded by | Matthew Patrick | ||||||||||
| Chair of the Women and Equalities Committee | |||||||||||
| In office 12 September 2024 – 23 July 2026 | |||||||||||
| Preceded by | Caroline Nokes | ||||||||||
| Member of Parliament for Luton North | |||||||||||
| Assumed office 12 December 2019 | |||||||||||
| Preceded by | Kelvin Hopkins | ||||||||||
| Majority | 7,510 (19.4%) | ||||||||||
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| Personal details | |||||||||||
| Born | Sarah Mei Li Owen 11 January 1983 Hastings, East Sussex, England | ||||||||||
| Political party | Labour | ||||||||||
| Education | University of Sussex | ||||||||||
| Website | sarahowen | ||||||||||
Sarah Mei Li Owen[2] (Chinese: 陳美麗; pinyin: Chén Měilì; Wade–Giles: Chen Mei-li;[1] born 11 January 1983)[3][4] is a British Labour Party politician and trade unionist who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Luton North since 2019.[5] She is the first female MP of Chinese descent.[6] She has been the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland since July 2026.
References
[change | change source]- 1 2 "英大選兩華裔勝出" [Two Chinese ancestry elected in the U.K. General election]. Sing Tao Daily. 2019-12-15. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ "No. 62862". The London Gazette. 20 December 2019. p. 23185.
- ↑ "The 10 other Chinese candidates vying for House of Commons seats". South China Morning Post. 2015-05-02. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
- ↑ Brunskill, Ian (2020). The Times guide to the House of Commons 2019 : the definitive record of Britain's historic 2019 General Election. Glasgow. p. 264. ISBN 978-0-00-839258-1.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ Rodgers, Sienna (5 November 2019). "GMB's Sarah Owen picked as Labour's Luton North candidate". LabourList. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
- ↑ Johnson, John (9 March 2022). "TRAILBLAZER: Sarah Owen on racism on the doorstep and being a role model". Politics Home. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
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