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Sarah Louise Teather (born 1 June 1974) is a British Liberal Democrat politician, and a former Member of Parliament and Minister. She founded the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Guantanamo Bay. and was Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= All-Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees )〕 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. ==Early life== 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. Teather initially embarked on a PhD at University College London, but left the course at the end of her first year. She went on to work as a policy adviser for a number of prominent groups including the Royal Society and the charity Macmillan Cancer Relief. Teather first contested an election on 7 June 2001 in the seat of Finchley and Golders Green. On 3 May 2002 she was elected to Islington London Borough Council as one of the three councillors representing Hillrise Ward.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Islington Borough Council 2002 Election Results and Turnout Statistics )〕 She was then appointed by the council to serve as a school governor at Ashmount School. Subsequent to her first election as an MP she resigned from Islington Council, resigned as a school governor at Ashmount school and withdrew as a candidate for the Greater London Assembly seat in North East London. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sarah Teather」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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