Constituency : Brent East 2003-2010, Brent Central 2010-15
Sarah took Brent East from Labour, coming from third place as the war in Iraq started to eat away at the government's popularity. She became the Baby of the House as she was just 29.
Sarah was educated at Leicester Grammar School and Cambridge. She became a policy adviser for charitable organisations. She contested Finchley and Golders Green in 2001 and became a councillor in Islington the following year. She is a Catholic.
Sarah became a spokesman on London. She increased her majority in 2005 and became Communities and Local Government spokesman. She co-drafted a letter calling on Charles Kennedy to resign and supported Menzies Campbell for the leadership. She became Education spokesman in 2006, Business spokesman in 2007 and Housing spokesman in 2008.
Boundary changes forced Sarah to contest Brent Central in 2010. It was thought to be safe for Labour but Sarah triumphed again. She devoted a lot of her time to getting a constituent released from Guantanamo Bay
In 2010 Sarah became Minister for Schools. She was attacked for lobbying for schools in her constituency to be exempted from government cuts and then by Tories for going missing in key debates on the Welfare Reform Bill. She was dropped in a reshuffle in 2012 and became a prominent internal critic of Nick Clegg. The following year, after a spell in a religious retreat, she announced her decision to step down at the next election saying Nick Clegg's party no longer fought sufficiently for social justice or liberal values on immigration.
Sarah became an advocacy adviser for the Jesuit Refugee Council. She became country director of JRS UK in December 2015.
She is now 45.
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