Sarah Owen

Sarah Owen was born and raised in Hastings. Her career has seen her work for the NHS as an healthcare assistant, and in the emergency planning department of the London Fire Brigade. She has long been a Labour activist,and has built up experience as a political assistant at Brighton and Hove City Council, as well as serving as a political adviser to Lord Sugar in the House of Lords. Owen first contested the Hastings and Rye seat in the 2015 election – but unsuccessfully. Being British-Chinese, she became the first female and the first Labour MP of East Asian origin upon her election in 2019. After her election, she became PPS to the shadow secretary of state for the FCO, Lisa Nandy. In 2020, she resigned to vote against the proposed Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill. Owen is chair of Chinese for Labour and has been a political officer for the trade union GMB, and has built up her political allies during her time on Labour’s National Executive Committee. Owen has consistently championed an immigration system which provided such benefit to her mother’s own migration.