Yuan Yang (politician)

Yuan Yang
杨缘
Member of Parliament
for Earley and Woodley
Assumed office
4 July 2024
Preceded byConstituency created
Majority848 (1.9%)
Personal details
Born1990 (age 33–34)
Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
Political partyLabour
Alma materBalliol College, Oxford (BA)
London School of Economics (MSc)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese楊緣
Simplified Chinese杨缘
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinYáng yuán

Yuan Yang (Chinese: 杨缘; born 1990)[1] is a British-Chinese Labour Party politician, economist and journalist serving as Member of Parliament for Earley and Woodley since 2024.

Yang was formerly the UK-based Europe-China correspondent for the Financial Times. She is the first Chinese-born Briton to be elected to the UK Parliament, and the second of Chinese ethnicity after Alan Mak.[citation needed]

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