[2] In 2001, he was appointed managing director of Cavendish Publishing, with a 30-percent stake in the company.

[3] By 2003, it was the largest independent law publisher in the United Kingdom.

[4] He left Taylor & Francis in 2007 to join One Charter, a private jet business, as a non-executive director.

[4] Formerly the Chair of Chinese for Labour,[5][6] in October 2022, it was announced that he would receive a life peerage in the 2022 Special Honours.

[10] He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for political service.