I have to say I’m pretty chuffed with Nick Clegg’s announcement that Lynne Featherstone is going back to the Home Office for the final 6 months of this Government. She spent the first two years there and in that time did all the set-up work for the Same Sex Marriage Bill. Since she’s been at DFID, she’s maintained a good working relationship with the Home Office because she’s been implementing a cross-Government plan to tackle FGM that involves them. I hope that she might also be able to dig her Transgender Action Plan out of the long grass where it’s been languishing.
Replacing Lynne at the DFID is Lindsay Northover. I’m delighted to see her with a job in Government that will really play to her strengths. Lindsay is a lifelong campaigner for equality and will continue Lynne’s work on forced marriage, tackling sexual violence and violence against women and girls.
* Caron Lindsay is Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Caron's Musings
