Sonny Leong, Baron Leong, (born September 1953), is a British Labour Party politician.

Career

Leong co-founded

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in 1990. The company made £250,000 in its first year. In 2001, he was appointed managing director of Cavendish Publishing, with a 30-percent stake in the company. By 2003, it was the largest independent law publisher in the United Kingdom. In 2006, Leong sold Cavendish Publishing to

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. He left Taylor & Francis in 2007 to join One Charter, a private jet business, as a non-executive director. Formerly the Chair of Chinese for Labour, in October 2022, it was announced that he would receive a

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in the

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. 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''.

Personal life

Leong and his wife, Gita, have a daughter, Sonya. He was appointed a

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(CBE) in the

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for political service.

References

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