Constituency : Hornsey and Wood Green 2005-2015
Lynne unseated Labour's Barbara Roche at the third attempt, a result that was put down to the Iraq War.
Lynne was born in London and educated at South Hampstead High School and Oxford Polytechnic. Her parents owned a chain of electrical shops. She became a Haringey councillor in 1998. She became the Opposition leader as a result. She was also a member of the London Assembly from 2000 to 2005 and was chair of the Transport Committee. She contested Hornsey and Wood Green in 1997 and came a distant third. In 2001 she moved up to second place.She is Jewish.
Lynne became a junior home affairs spokesman. She supported Chris Huhne in both his leadership campaigns. She became Youth and Equality spokesperson under Nick Clegg.
Lynne declined to stand for the London Mayor in 2008.
Lynne became a junior home office minister in the coalition government but achieved prominence by spearheading the same sex marriage legislation. She was criticised for a comment made at the 2011 party conference that men "make terrible decisions" when they are in charge. She also had a spell as an international development minister.
In 2015 Lynne was soundly beaten by Labour. She published a book about the same sex legislation called Equal Ever After. She went to the House of Lords as Baroness Featherstone and was spokesperson for energy and climate change until earlier this year.
Despite being 53 when first elected, Lynne topped a poll as Britain's most fanciable MP.
No comments:
Post a Comment