Yuan Yang (politician)
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%) | ||||||
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| Born | 1990 (age 34–35) Ningbo, Zhejiang, China | ||||||
| Citizenship | United Kingdom | ||||||
| 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) is a Chinese-born British Labour Party politician, economist and journalist serving as Member of Parliament for Earley and Woodley since 2024.
Born in China, Yang moved to the United Kingdom with her parents at the age of four. She was formerly the UK-based Europe–China correspondent for the Financial Times. Yang is the first Chinese-born Briton to be elected to the UK Parliament, and the second of Chinese ethnicity after Alan Mak.