The Baron Leong

 The life peerage recently conferred upon Mr Sonny Leong, CBE, has been gazetted in the name, style and title of Baron Leong, of Chilton in the County of Oxxfordshire and of Camden Town in the London Borough of Camden.

Sonny Leong (born September 1953) is a British Labour Party politician, and the co-founder and co-chair of SME4Labour. A former barrister, Leong founded Cavendish Publishing in 1990. 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. By 2003, it was the largest independent law publisher in the United Kingdom. In 2006, Leong sold Cavendish Publishing to Taylor & Francis. He left Taylor & Francis in 2007 to join One Charter, a private jet business, as a non-executive director. He was formerly the Chair of Chinese for Labour.

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