Olly Grender

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Who is Olly Grender?

Rosalind Mary Grender, Baroness Grender, MBE, known as Olly Grender, is a former Head of Communications for the Liberal Democrats and a party life peer.

In the 1980s she was a member of the National League of Young Liberals' Green Guard. After working as a researcher for the Liberal Democrats, Grender became a speech-writer to Paddy Ashdown in the late 1980s, being awarded a MBE in the 1996 Birthday Honours list,. She was Director of Communications for the Liberal Democrats from June 1990 to June 1995 and Director of Communications for Shelter from June 1995 to October 1999, before joining LLM Communications in 2000. Grender sometimes appears on British television, espousing Liberal Democrat points of view. She appeared on Question Time on 21 November, as one of an unusually small panel of three. Over the course of a year, under September 2011, Grender blogged for the New Statesman magazine.

At the beginning of August 2013, it was announced that Grender is to become a Liberal Democrat life peer, and will be a working member of the House of Lords. Her peerage was created on 4 September 2013 under the title Baroness Grender, of Kingston upon Thames in the London Borough of Kingston upon Thames.

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on July 23, 2013

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