The Lord Leong | |
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 Official portrait, 2022 | |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 31 October 2022 Life peerage | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Sonny Leong September 1953 (age 70) |
| Political party | Labour |
Sonny Leong, Baron Leong, CBE (born September 1953), [1] is a British Labour Party politician.
Leong co-founded Cavendish Publishing in 1990. [2] The company made £250,000 in its first year. [2]
In 2001, he was appointed managing director of Cavendish Publishing, with a 30-percent stake in the company. [3] By 2003, it was the largest independent law publisher in the United Kingdom. [2]
In 2006, Leong sold Cavendish Publishing to Taylor & Francis. [4] He left Taylor & Francis in 2007 to join One Charter, a private jet business, as a non-executive director. [4]
Formerly the Chair of Chinese for Labour, [5] [6] in October 2022, it was announced that he would receive a life peerage in the 2022 Special Honours. [7] On 31 October 2022, he was created Baron Leong, of Chilton in the County of Oxfordshire and of Camden Town in the London Borough of Camden. [8] [9]
Leong and his wife, Gita, have a daughter, Sonya. [10] He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for political service. [11]
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