Sonny Leong, Baron Leong
The Lord Leong | |
|---|---|
| 梁辛尼 | |
 Official portrait, 2022 | |
| Member of the House of Lords | |
| Life peerage 31 October 2022 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Sonny Leong September 1953 (age 72) |
| Party | Labour |
Sonny Leong, Baron Leong, CBE (born September 1953),[1] is a British Labour Party politician.
Career
[edit]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]
Leong stood unsuccessfully for Labour in the 2015 Vale of White Horse District Council election, in the Blewbury & Harwell ward, finishing fourth of seven candidates with 12.73% of the vote.[5]
Formerly the Chair of Chinese for Labour,[6][7] in October 2022, it was announced that he would receive a life peerage in the 2022 Special Honours.[8] 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.[9][10] He was made a Government Whip in the Lord's in July 2024.[11]
He is a member of the Fabian Society.[12]
Personal life
[edit]Leong and his wife, Gita, have a daughter, Sonya.[13] He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for political service.[14]
References
[edit]- ^ "Sonny Leong". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Companies House. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
- ^ a b c De Vita, Emma (April 2003). "Legally binding". Management Today. p. 79. ProQuest 214754632. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
- ^ "Sonny Leong appointed to Cavendish board". The Bookseller. 21 September 2001. Retrieved 14 October 2022 – via Gale OneFile.
- ^ a b "Sonny Leong joins executive airline". The Bookseller. 2007. Retrieved 14 October 2022 – via EBSCOHost.
- ^ "Declaration of results" (PDF). Vale of White Horse District Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 July 2024. Retrieved 27 February 2026.
- ^ Leong, Sonny (17 October 2013). "Don't kowtow for Chinese money". The Evening Standard. London. Retrieved 14 October 2022 – via Gale OneFile.
- ^ "Sonny Leong CBE". SME4Labour. 7 March 2021. Archived from the original on 14 October 2022. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
- ^ "Political Peerages 2022". gov.uk. 14 October 2022. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
- ^ "Crown Office". The London Gazette. No. 63865. 4 November 2022. p. 21046.
- ^ "Baron Leong". MPs and Lords. UK Parliament. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
- ^ "Lord Leong CBE". Gov.uk.
- ^ "Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards". UK Government. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ^ "Round-up of Oxfordshire people honoured in the Queen's birthday list". Oxford Mail. 14 June 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
- ^ "Birthday Honours lists 2014". Government of the United Kingdom: HM Government. 14 June 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
 | This biography of a life peer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. |
- Living people
- Life peers created by Charles III
- Labour Party (UK) life peers
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- 1953 births
- Labour Party (UK) Baronesses- and Lords-in-Waiting
- British people of Chinese descent
- 20th-century British businesspeople
- 21st-century British businesspeople
- 21st-century British politicians
- Members of the Fabian Society
- Life peer stubs
- Incumbent members of the House of Lords