The Right Honourable
The Lord Leong
CBE
Official portrait, 2022
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
31 October 2022
Life peerage
Personal details
Born
Sonny Leong

September 1953 (age 70)
Political partyLabour

Sonny Leong, Baron Leong, CBE (born September 1953),[1] is a British Labour Party politician.

Career

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]

Formerly the Chair of Chinese for Labour,[5][6] in October 2022, it was announced that he would receive a life peerage in the 2022 Special Honours.[7] 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.[8][9]

Personal life

Leong and his wife, Gita, have a daughter, Sonya.[10] He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for political service.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Sonny LEONG". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Companies House. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  2. ^ a b c De Vita, Emma (April 2003). "Legally binding". Management Today. p. 79. Retrieved 14 October 2022 – via ProQuest.
  3. ^ "Sonny Leong appointed to Cavendish board". The Bookseller. 21 September 2001. Retrieved 14 October 2022 – via Gale OneFile.
  4. ^ a b "Sonny Leong joins executive airline". The Bookseller. 2007. Retrieved 14 October 2022 – via EBSCOHost.
  5. ^ Leong, Sonny (17 October 2013). "Don't kowtow for Chinese money". The Evening Standard. London. Retrieved 14 October 2022 – via Gale OneFile.
  6. ^ "Sonny Leong CBE". SME4Labour. 7 March 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
  7. ^ "Political Peerages 2022". gov.uk. 14 October 2022. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
  8. ^ "Crown Office | The Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  9. ^ "Baron Leong". MPs and Lords. UK Parliament. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  10. ^ "Round-up of Oxfordshire people honoured in the Queen's birthday list". Oxford Mail. 14 June 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
  11. ^ "Birthday Honours lists 2014". Honours. Government of the United Kingdom: HM Government. 14 June 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom Preceded byThe Lord Soames of Fletching GentlemenBaron Leong Followed byThe Lord Roberts of Belgravia
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