Lynne Featherstone used to run a London design company and was then the strategic design consultant for the UK’s largest transport consultancy. She has also worked at University College Hospital and was director of an electrical business with ten branches across London.

Lynne served on the London Assembly 2000-5, before stepping down after being elected as MP for Hornsey and Wood Green. During her time on the GLA, she chaired the Transport Committee and also served on the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA). Lynne served as number two in the Liberal Democrat Home Affairs team in Parliament and the party’s London spokesperson, being promoted to the party’s Shadow Cabinet as International Development spokesperson in December 2006. In December 2007, after Nick Clegg’s election as party leader, she switched to the role of Youth and Equalities Spokesperson in the Shadow Cabinet.