Lynne Featherstone
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 Lynne Featherstone facts

• 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 was the originator and architect of same-sex marriage and 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