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Sara Hyde, Baroness Hyde of Bemerton

British politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ137342771 ↗
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Sara Kathryn Sabres Hyde, Baroness Hyde of Bemerton is a British politician from the Labour Party.

Career

Sara Hyde is chair of the Fabian Society. She is a former prison worker. She works with women in the criminal justice system and as a theatre maker.

Hyde is a member of Islington London Borough Council and Executive Member for Health and Social Care. She represents Caledonian ward. She was first elected in 2018.

Hyde was the Labour candidate in Bromley and Chislehurst in the 2017 United Kingdom general election. She was nominated for a life peerage in 2025 Political Peerages. On 12 January 2026, she was created Baroness Hyde of Bemerton, of King’s Cross in the London Borough of Islington.

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Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 2017, 2025, 2026—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Sara, Hyde and Baroness providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q137342771. The first chronological checks are 2018, 2017, 2025 and 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sara Hyde, Baroness Hyde of Bemerton” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.