Yuan Yang

Yuan Yang (Chinese: 杨缘; born 1990) is a British Labour Party politician, economist and journalist. She has been a Member of Parliament for Earley and Wo

Yuan Yang
Yuan Yang

MP
杨缘
Official portrait, 2024
Member of Parliament
for Earley and Woodley
Assumed office
4 July 2024
Preceded byConstituency created
Majority848 (1.9%)
Personal details
Born1990 (age 35–36)
Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom[1][2]
Political partyLabour
EducationBradford Grammar School
Alma materBalliol College, Oxford (BA)
London School of Economics (MSc)
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Yuan Yang (Chinese: 杨缘; born 1990) is a British Labour Party politician, economist and journalist. She has been a Member of Parliament for Earley and Woodley since 2024. Yang is the first Chinese-born Briton to be elected to the UK Parliament.[3] She is the third of Chinese ethnicity after Alan Mak[4] and Sarah Owen.[5]

She was a correspondent for the Financial Times.[3]

Early life

Yang was born in Ningbo in China.[6] She grew up in the southwestern Sichuan province.[7] She was raised by her grandparents in a work unit (danwei).[8] At the age of four, she moved to the north of England with her parents. She moved between Manchester and Leeds.[3][7]

MP

In December 2023, Yang was announced as the Labour Party candidate for Earley and Woodley[9] in the 2024 general election.[10] In July 2024, she won the newly created constituency with 18,209 votes, beating the Conservative party candidate who received 17,361 votes,[11] and becoming the UK's first Chinese-born MP.[12]

In May 2026, Yang supported the idea of Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigning after the poor results in the 2026 local elections.[13]

References

  1. ↑ "Employment Rights Bill - Hansard - UK Parliament". hansard.parliament.uk. 2025-06-04. Retrieved 2025-04-06.
  2. ↑ Lawrence, Elizabeth (2024-05-22). ""Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China's New Social Order" by Yuan Yang". Retrieved 2025-04-06.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Bradshaw, Kit (27 August 2024). "First Chinese-born MP Yuan Yang 'felt like an outsider' when she came to UK as child". ITV News Meridian.
  4. ↑ "Britain gains first ethnic Chinese MP". BBC News. 2015-05-08. Retrieved 2025-04-06.
  5. ↑ "Sarah Owen MP". Retrieved 2026-02-04.
  6. ↑ Patterson, Christina (2024-05-19). "Private Revolutions by Yuan Yang review — growing up in modern China". The Times. Archived from the original on 8 June 2024. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Timsit, Annabelle (23 August 2021). "Yuan Yang, the British-Chinese journalist witnessing the decline of press freedom in China". Quartz. Archived from the original on 6 July 2024. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  8. ↑ Eaton, George (22 May 2024). "Labour's Yuan Yang: "There is deep class anxiety in China"". New Statesman. Archived from the original on 27 June 2024. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
  9. ↑ "Yang Yang PPC – Earley and Woodley CLP". Earley and Woodley Labour CLP. Archived from the original on 2 June 2024. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
  10. ↑ "Yuan Yang selected as Labour candidate for new Earley and Woodley MP seat". Reading Chronicle. 18 December 2023. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  11. ↑ "General Election 2024: Labour's Yuan Yang wins Earley & Woodley seat". Wokingham Today. 5 July 2024. Archived from the original on 5 July 2024. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  12. ↑ Tse, Hans (5 July 2024). "Yuan Yang becomes UK's the first Chinese-born lawmaker". Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  13. ↑ Sparrow, Andrew (2026-05-11). "Three ministerial aides quit and demand Keir Starmer's resignation as speech fails to quell rebellion – UK politics live". the Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2026-05-11.

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