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Lynne Choona Featherstone, Baroness Featherstone, PC (''née'' Ryness, 20 December 1951) is a British Liberal Democrat parliamentarian and member of the House of Lords.〔https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dissolution-peerages-2015〕 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 equality, 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ministerial appointments: 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dissolution-peerages-2015 )〕 Featherstone will took her seat as a member of the House of Lords on the Opposition benches on November 26th 2015. ==Early life== Featherstone was born and brought up in North London in a British Jewish family, and educated at the Highgate (Primary School ), the independent South Hampstead High School (then a direct grant grammar school) and gained a Diploma in Communication and Design at Oxford Polytechnic. Her family's wealth is generated from a family business founded by her parents – the Ryness chain of lighting and electrical shops in the London area.〔(www.ryness.co.uk )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lynne Featherstone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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