Member of Parliament for Brent Central Brent East (2003–2010)
In office 19 September 2003 – 30 March 2015
Preceded by
Paul Daisley
Succeeded by
Dawn Butler
Islington London Borough Councillor
In office 2 May 2002 – 23 September 2003[1]
Ward
Hillrise
Preceded by
Sheila Camp
Succeeded by
Jayashankar Sharma
Liberal Democrat portfolios
2006–2007
Education and Skills
2007
Innovation, Universities and Skills
2007–2008
Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
2008–2010
Housing
Personal details
Born
Sarah Louise Teather
(1974-06-01) 1 June 1974 (age 50) Enfield, London, England
Political party
Liberal Democrats
Alma mater
St John's College, Cambridge
Website
Official website
Sarah Louise Teather (born 1 June 1974)[2] is the Director of Jesuit Refugee Service UK and a former British Member of Parliament and Minister. As a Liberal Democrat politician, she founded the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Guantanamo Bay[3] and was chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees.[4] On stepping down as an MP, she joined the Jesuit Refugee Service as an advocacy adviser and was appointed as country director of JRS UK in December 2015.
After serving in the Islington London Borough Council, she was first elected as an MP on 18 September 2003 at the Brent East by-election and was re-elected with an increased majority at the 2005 general election.[2] After the seat was abolished due to boundary changes, Teather was selected as the Liberal Democrat candidate for the successor seat, Brent Central. Her main opponent was sitting Labour MP Dawn Butler, whose Brent South seat was also abolished. Teather won by a small margin, and, after the election, she served as Minister of State in the Department for Education in the coalition government between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats until she returned to the backbenches on 4 September 2012. On 7 September 2013, she announced that she would leave the House of Commons in 2015.[5]
^"LONDON BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON COUNCIL MEETING – 28TH OCTOBER 2003 MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS (Item 3b)" (PDF). Islington.gov.uk.
^ ab"Sarah Teather". BBC News. Archived from the original on 17 May 2010.
^"Sarah Teather MP, Brent Central". TheyWorkForYou.com. Archived from the original on 19 April 2010. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
^"All-Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees". UK Parliament. Archived from the original on 19 October 2012.
^"Sarah Teather to stand down as Lib Dem MP at 2015 election". BBC News. 19 September 2003. Archived from the original on 9 September 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
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