Sarah Champion

Sarah Champion MP
Official portrait, 2024
Chair of the International Development Select Committee
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 January 2020
Preceded by	Stephen Twigg
Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities[a]
In office 6 October 2016 – 16 August 2017
Leader	Jeremy Corbyn
Preceded by	Angela Rayner
Succeeded by	Dawn Butler
Member of Parliament for Rotherham
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 November 2012
Preceded by	Denis MacShane
Majority	5,490 (14.9%)
Personal details
Born	Sarah Deborah Champion (1969-07-10) 10 July 1969 (age 55) Maldon, England
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Graham Hoyland ​ ​ (m. 1999; div. 2007)​
Alma mater	University of Sheffield
Website	Official website

Sarah Deborah Champion (born 10 July 1969)^[1] is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rotherham since 2012.

Champion studied psychology at Sheffield University. Before entering Parliament, she ran art workshops and was employed as the Chief Executive of a children's hospice in Rotherham. Champion was first elected to Parliament at the 2012 by-election.

Champion was appointed by Jeremy Corbyn as Shadow Minister for Preventing Abuse in September 2015, but resigned in June 2016, following a vote of no confidence in Corbyn. However, she returned to the frontbench in July 2016. In October 2016, she was promoted to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities.^[2] In August 2017, Champion resigned from her post following criticism of an opinion piece she wrote for The Sun that discussed what she termed the problem of white girls being raped and exploited by British Pakistani men, and which fellow Labour MP Naz Shah described as "incendiary and irresponsible".^[3]

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