Yuan Yang
Yuan Yang | |||||||
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| 杨缘 | |||||||
Official portrait, 2024 | |||||||
| Member of Parliament for Earley and Woodley | |||||||
| Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |||||||
| Preceded by | Constituency created | ||||||
| Majority | 848 (1.9%) | ||||||
| Personal details | |||||||
| Born | 1990 (age 35–36) Ningbo, Zhejiang, China | ||||||
| Citizenship | United Kingdom | ||||||
| Party | Labour | ||||||
| Education | Bradford Grammar School | ||||||
| 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) is a British Labour Party politician, economist and journalist serving as Member of Parliament for Earley and Woodley since 2024. Yang is the first Chinese-born Briton to be elected to the UK Parliament, and the third of Chinese ethnicity after Alan Mak and Sarah Owen.
She was formerly the UK-based Europe–China correspondent for the Financial Times.