1. Sarah Jane Olney is a British Liberal Democrat politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Richmond Park since 2019, previously holding the seat from 2016 to 2017.
14 Facts About Sarah Olney
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Sarah Olney was first MP for Richmond Park for six months, from a by-election in December 2016 to the general election in June 2017, before she regained the seat at the 2019 general election, facing off against Zac Goldsmith in both elections.
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Sarah Olney was the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for international trade from January to September 2020 and for education from May to June 2017.
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Sarah Olney McGibbon was born in Frimley on 11 January 1977 to Ian and Rosalyn McGibbon.
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Sarah Olney was educated at All Hallows Catholic School in Farnham and then studied English Literature and Language at King's College London.
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Sarah Olney initially worked as a bookseller in Hatchards, Piccadilly, from 1998 to 2000.
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Sarah Olney became a qualified accountant at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in 2016.
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Sarah Olney joined the Liberal Democrats in July 2015, having said that she was a liberal dissatisfied with the direction of the United Kingdom.
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On 30 October 2016, Sarah Olney was announced as the Liberal Democrats' candidate for the by-election.
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Shortly after her election, Sarah Olney ended a radio interview in which she was pressed on her support for a second Brexit referendum.
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Sarah Olney voted against the triggering of Article 50, as she had indicated during the by-election campaign that she would do so.
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Sarah Olney believed that another referendum should have been held once the exact terms of Britain's exit from the EU had been announced.
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Sarah Olney referred to the Liberal Democrat candidate for Ealing Central and Acton as a "paper candidate" and voiced her support for the incumbent Labour Party MP Rupa Huq.
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In May 2021, alongside celebrities and other public figures, Sarah Olney was a signatory to an open letter from Stylist magazine which called on the government to address what it described as an "epidemic of male violence" by funding an "ongoing, high-profile, expert-informed awareness campaign on men's violence against women and girls".