Lynne Featherstone

Lynne Choona Featherstone (née Ryness) (born 20 December 1951), known as Baroness Featherstone, of Highgate in the London Borough of Haringey''' since 2015, is a Liberal Democrat politician.

Born in North London, in 1982 she married Stephen Featherstone. She entered local politics as a member of Haringey London Borough Council representing Muswell Hill Ward, in 1998. She was leader of the Liberal Democrat opposition group on the council from 1998-2003, and stood down from the council in 2006.

In 2000 she was elected to the London Assembly as a London-wide member and was re-elected in 2004.

At the 2005 general election she was elected member of parliament for Hornsey and Wood Green and resigned her assembly seat. This victory was her third attempt, having contested the same seat at the 1997 and 2001 general elections. She hled the seat at the 2010 general election, and held a number of junior ministerial posts in the coalition government. She lost her seat to the Labour Party at the 2015 general election, but was given a life peerage.