John Sharkey, Baron Sharkey

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

The Right Honourable The Lord Sharkey
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 December 2010 Life Peerage
Personal details
Born	24 September 1947
Political party	Liberal Democrats

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]

Parliament activity

Lord Sharkey put forward the so-called Alan Turing law, by which men who had been convicted under legislation that outlawed homosexual acts would be pardoned.^[5]