John Sharkey, Baron Sharkey

John Kevin Sharkey, Baron Sharkey (born 24 September 1947) is a British Liberal Democratic politician. He was chairman of the Liberal Democratic General Election campaign during the United Kingdom general election, 2010 and director of the YES! To Fairer Votes campaign during the United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum, 2011.^[1] He had previously been appointed as Nick Clegg's advisor on strategic communications in January 2008.^[2]

He is also a former joint managing director of Saatchi & Saatchi UK, founder and director of Sharkey Associates Ltd. and a trustee and honorary treasurer of the Hansard Society.^[3] He was created a Life Peer as Baron Sharkey, of Niton Undercliff in the County of the Isle of Wight on 20 December 2010.^[4]

References

↑ "John Sharkey". www.libdems.org.uk. Liberal Democrats. January 8, 2008. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
↑ "Clegg hires Thatcher campaign man". news.bbc.co.uk. BBC. January 8, 2008. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
↑ "Lord Sharkey". www.parliament.uk. Parliament of the United Kingdom. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 59642. p. 24598. 23 December 2010.

Current Liberal Democrat peers

Hereditary peers	Addington Glasgow Oxford & Asquith Vacant

Life peers	Alderdice Allan of Hallam Alliance Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville Barker Beith Benjamin Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury Bowles of Berkhamsted Bradshaw Brinton Bruce of Bennachie Burnett Burt of Solihull Campbell of Pittenweem Carlile of Berriew Chidgey Clement-Jones Cotter Dholakia Doocey Falkner of Margravine Fearn Featherstone Foster of Bath Fox Garden of Frognal German Goddard of Stockport Greaves Grender Hamwee Harris of Richmond Humphreys Hussain Hussein-Ece Janke Jolly Jones of Cheltenham Kirkwood of Kirkhope Kramer Lee of Trafford Lester of Herne Hill Loomba Macdonald of River Glaven Maclennan of Rogart Maddock Manzoor Mar & Kellie Marks of Henley-on-Thames McNally Miller of Chilthorne Domer Newby Nicholson of Winterbourne Northover Oates Paddick Palmer of Childs Hill Palumbo of Shouthwark Parminter Pinnock Purvis Randerson Razzall Redesdale Rennard Roberts of Llandudno Rodgers of Quarry Bank Scott of Needham Market Scriven Sharkey Sharp of Guildford Sheehan Shipley Shutt of Greetland Smith of Clifton Smith of Newnham Steel of Aikwood Stephen Stoneham of Droxford Storey Strasburger Stunell Suttie Taverne Taylor of Goss Moor Teverson Thomas of Gresford Thomas of Walliswood Thomas of Winchester Thornhill Tope Tordoff Tyler Tyler of Enfield Vallance of Tummel Verjee Wallace of Saltaire Wallace of Tankerness Walmsley Watson of Richmond Willis of Knaresborough Wrigglesworth

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