Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Lord Leong | |
Office: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
Term Start: | 31 October 2022 Life peerage |
Birth Name: | Sonny Leong |
Party: | Labour |
Sonny Leong, Baron Leong, (born September 1953),[1] is a British Labour Party politician.
Leong co-founded Cavendish Publishing in 1990.[2] The company made £250,000 in its first year.
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.
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.
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]
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]