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Sarah Owen
陳美麗[1][2]
Official portrait, 2021
Member of Parliament for Luton North
Incumbent
Assumed office 12 December 2019
Preceded by
Kelvin Hopkins
Majority
9,247 (21.7%)
Shadow portfolios
2022–2023
Local Government and Faith
2021–2023
Whip
2021–2022
Homelessness, Rough Sleeping and Faith
Personal details
Born
(1983-01-11) 11 January 1983 (age 41) Hastings, East Sussex, England
Political party
Labour
Alma mater
University of Sussex
Signature
Website
sarahowen.org.uk
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
陳美麗
Simplified Chinese
陈美丽
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Chén Měilì
Wade–Giles
Chen2 Mei3-li4
Sarah Mei Li Owen[3] (Chinese: 陳美麗; pinyin: Chén Měilì; Wade–Giles: Chen Mei-li;[1][2] born 11 January 1983)[4][5]
is a British politician and trade unionist serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Luton North since 2019.[6] A member of the Labour Party, Owen is the first MP of South East Asian descent and the first female MP of Chinese descent.[7]
She served as Shadow Minister for Local Government and Faith from October 2022 to November 2023, having previously served as Shadow Minister for Homelessness, Rough Sleeping and Faith shadowing the same shadow department between December 2021 and October 2022.
^ ab"英大選兩華裔勝出" [Two Chinese ancestry elected in the U.K. General election]. Sing Tao Daily. 15 December 2019. Archived from the original on 17 December 2019. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
^ ab"兩華裔當選 女議員數目創新高" [Two Chinese ancestry elected, numbers of female MPs hit record high]. Wen Wei Po. 14 December 2019. Archived from the original on 30 October 2020. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
^"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. 2 May 2015. 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)
^Cite error: The named reference LabourList was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^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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