Lynne Featherstone
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The Right Honourable The Baroness Featherstone PC |
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| Liberal Democrat Energy & Climate Change Spokesman |
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Assumed office 29 July 2015 |
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| Leader | Tim Farron |
| Preceded by | Ed Davey |
| Liberal Democrat Home Affairs Spokesman | |
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In office 7 January 2015 – 16 July 2015 |
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| Leader | Nick Clegg |
| Preceded by | Chris Huhne |
| Succeeded by | Alistair Carmichael |
| Minister of State at the Home Office | |
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In office 4 November 2014 – 8 May 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Norman Baker |
| Succeeded by | John Hayes |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development | |
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In office 4 September 2012 – 4 November 2014 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Stephen O'Brien |
| Succeeded by | Lindsay Northover |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Equalities | |
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In office 13 May 2010 – 4 September 2012 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Maria Eagle (Minister of State) |
| Succeeded by | Helen Grant |
| Spokesman for Youth and Equality Issues | |
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In office 2 July 2007 – 13 May 2010 |
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| Leader | Nick Clegg |
| Preceded by | Susan Kramer |
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Member of Parliament for Hornsey and Wood Green |
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In office 5 May 2005 – 7 May 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Barbara Roche |
| Succeeded by | Catherine West |
| Majority | 7,875 (12.5%) |
| Member of the London Assembly for the Liberal Democrats (London-wide) |
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In office 4 May 2000 – 6 June 2005 |
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| Preceded by | New constituency |
| Succeeded by | Geoff Pope |
| Personal details | |
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Lynne Choona Ryness 20 December 1951 Highgate, Middlesex, UK |
| Nationality |
 United Kingdom
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| Political party | Liberal Democrats |
| Spouse(s) | Stephen Featherstone 1982–96 (divorced) |
| Children | 2 |
| Residence | Highgate, N6 |
| Alma mater | Oxford Polytechnic |
| Profession | Politician |
| Religion | None |
| a. ^ Office vacant from 12 May 2010 to 7 January 2015. | |
Lynne Choona Featherstone, Baroness Featherstone, PC (née Ryness, 20 December 1951) is a British Liberal Democrat parliamentarian and member of the House of Lords.
A Member of the London Assembly (MLA) from 2000 to 2005, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Hornsey and Wood Green between 2005 and 2015, before being nominated for a peerage in the Dissolution Peerages List 2015. She was created Baroness Featherstone, of Highgate in the London Borough of Haringey, on 20 October.
Under the Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition in 2010 she was appointed as a Home Office Minister with responsibility for criminal information and equalities, before being promoted, in 2012, Minister with responsibility for International Development. Previously she was Liberal Democrat spokesman for Youth and Equality issues, and chair of the Liberal Democrats technology board. Featherstone launched the consultation by the UK Government on introducing same-sex marriage being the first politician to take part in the Out4Marriage campaign, and returned to the Home Office as Minister of State in November 2014.
Featherstone lost her parliamentary seat to Catherine West, the Labour candidate, in 2015, subsequently being nominated by former Deputy PM, the Rt Hon Nick Clegg for a Life Peerage in the Dissolution Honours 2015. Featherstone took her seat as a member of the House of Lords on the Opposition benches on 26 November 2015.
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