Yuan Yang | |||||||
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杨缘 | |||||||
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Member of Parliament for Earley and Woodley | |||||||
Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |||||||
Preceded by | Constituency created | ||||||
Majority | 848 (1.9%) | ||||||
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Born | 1990 (age 33–34) Ningbo, Zhejiang, China | ||||||
Political party | Labour | ||||||
Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford (BA) London School of Economics (MSc) | ||||||
Chinese name | |||||||
Traditional Chinese | 楊緣 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 杨缘 | ||||||
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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]