11 Facts About Jonny Oates

Jonathan Jonny Oates, Baron Jonny Oates was born on 28 December 1969 and is a British Liberal Democrat politician and member of the House of Lords.

Jonny Oates began his career as an account manager at political and media relations firm Westminster Strategy.

Jonny Oates remained in local and national politics, serving as an election agent for Edward Davey, a winning candidate at the 1997 General Election.

In 1999, Jonny Oates took a position at the Westminster Foundation for Democracy where he was assigned to a role as a political and media adviser to the Inkatha Freedom Party in the South African Parliament, advising Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Reverend Musa Zondi.

Jonny Oates returned to the UK in 2001 as a policy and communications co-ordinator at the Youth Justice Board, advising chairman Lord Warner.

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In 2004 Jonny Oates became a director at Bell Pottinger Public Affairs.

Jonny Oates was later appointed as director of policy and communications for the Liberal Democrats and in 2009 was given the role of director of General Election communications for the 2010 General Election.

In 2010, Jonny Oates stood as a Liberal Democrat candidate for the safe Conservative seat of Coombe Hill on Kingston upon Thames Council and was rated by the Daily Telegraph in September 2010 as the fifth "most influential" Liberal Democrat.

Jonny Oates was created a life peer on 5 October 2015, taking the title Baron Oates, of Denby Grange in the County of West Yorkshire.

Jonny Oates' father is the Reverend Canon John Jonny Oates, formerly rector of St Bride's Church on Fleet Street.

Jonny Oates studied at Marlborough College and the University of Exeter, where one of his best friends was Thom Yorke who went on to become the lead singer of Radiohead.