Sarah Owen
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| Born | 11 January 1983 | |||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Sussex | |||||||||
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Sarah Mei Li Owen is a British Labour Party politician and trade unionist who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Luton North since 2019. She is the first MP of South East Asian descent and the first female MP of Chinese descent.
Owen was formerly a political officer for the trade union GMB and has been a member of Labour's National Executive Committee. She is chair of East and South East Asians for Labour.
Parliamentary career
On her election in 2019, Sarah Owen was appointed the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Lisa Nandy. On 15 October 2020, Owen resigned her position as PPS to vote against the proposed Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill, disagreeing with the Labour Whip to abstain.
On 14 April 2021, Owen announced that she was named Parliamentary Private Secretary to Rachel Reeves and was also appointed a whip.
In December 2021, she was appointed Shadow Minister for Homelessness, Rough Sleeping and Faith. On 28 October 2022, she was appointed Shadow Minister for Local Government, replacing Mike Amesbury who resigned from his post earlier in the year.
In 2022, she criticised Tory MP Mark Francois for using a "crass racial slur" in the House of Commons, after he had made a speech referring to "Japs".
In November 2023, she resigned from the Labour frontbench in support of calls for a ceasefire in Gaza.
At the UK/General election/2024, Sarah Owen was re-elected to Parliament as MP for Luton North with a decreased vote share of 37.9% and a decreased majority of 7,510.
On 11 September 2024, Owen was elected as Chair of the Women and Equalities Committee.
A Quote by Sarah Owen
| Page | Quote | Date | Source |
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| Piers Corbyn | “Piers Corbyn is a danger to our families, teams + to the people who believe the garbage he bangs on about. People may not agree with all their MP does but threatening to hammer us to death and burn down our offices is vile. Anonymous online trolls aren’t the major problem here.” | 18 December 2021 | X |
Event Participated in
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| UK/Parliament/Voted YES to vaccine passports in 2021 | UK/House of Commons | These members of the UK Parliament voted YES to the introduction of a "vaccine" passport in 2021 |
References
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