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

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and director of the YES! To Fairer Votes campaign during the

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. He had previously been appointed as

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's advisor on strategic communications in January 2008. 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

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. He was created a

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as Baron Sharkey, ''of Niton Undercliff in the County of the Isle of Wight'' on 20 December 2010.

Parliament activity

Lord Sharkey put forward the so-called

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, by which men who had been convicted under legislation that outlawed homosexual acts would be pardoned.

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