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Sarah Teather

Sarah Teather
Sarah Teather MP at Harrogate.jpg
Minister of State for Children and Families
In office
13 May 2010 – 4 September 2012
Prime Minister David Cameron
Preceded by Dawn Primarolo
Succeeded by Liz Truss (as Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Education and Childcare)
Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Housing
In office
8 October 2008 – 13 May 2010
Leader Nick Clegg
Preceded by Lembit Opik
Succeeded by Position abolished
Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
In office
20 December 2007 – 8 October 2008
Leader Nick Clegg
Preceded by Lembit Opik
Succeeded by Lord Thurso
Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Innovation, Universities and Skills
In office
4 July 2007 – 20 December 2007
Leader Menzies Campbell
Preceded by Department Created
Succeeded by Stephen Williams
Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Education and Skills
In office
3 March 2006 – 4 July 2007
Preceded by Edward Davey
Succeeded by Department Abolished
Member of Parliament
for Brent Central
Brent East (2003–2010)
In office
18 September 2003 – 7 May 2015
Preceded by Paul Daisley
Succeeded by Dawn Butler
Majority 1,345 (3.0%)
Islington Borough Councillor for Hillrise Ward
In office
2 May 2002 – 18 September 2003
Preceded by Sheila Camp
Succeeded by Jayashankar Sharma
Personal details
Born (1974-06-01) 1 June 1974 (age 42)
Enfield, London, England
Political party Liberal Democrats
Alma mater St John's College, Cambridge
Religion Roman Catholic
Website Official site

Sarah Louise Teather (born 1 June 1974) is a former British Member of Parliament and Minister. As a Liberal Democrat politician, she founded the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Guantanamo Bay and was Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees. On stepping down as an MP, she joined the Jesuit Refugee Service as an advocacy adviser and was appointed as Country Director of JRS UK in December 2015.

She was first elected as an MP on 18 September 2003 in the Brent East by-election and re-elected with an increased majority on 5 May 2005 in the 2005 general election. After the seat was abolished due to boundary changes she was selected as the Liberal Democrat candidate for the new constituency of Brent Central. Her main opponent was sitting Labour MP Dawn Butler, whose seat of Brent South was also abolished. Teather won by a small margin, and after the election she served as Minister of State in the Department for Education in the coalition between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats until she returned to the backbenches on 4 September 2012. On 7 September 2013, she announced that she would leave the Commons in 2015.

Teather was educated at the independent Leicester Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge, where she gained a 2:1 degree in Natural Sciences specialising in pharmacology.


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