Jenny Randerson, Lady Randerson, who has died aged 76, was a Liberal and then Liberal Democrat politician who spent 28 years in a succession of elected posts in Wales, followed by 14 years as a life peer, including three years, 2012-15, as a junior minister in the Wales Office in the 2010 Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government.
Randerson’s introduction to Liberal politics came through a knock on the door at her family home in Cardiff by a canvasser for Mike German, the candidate for Cardiff North at the 1979 general election. Both she and her husband, Peter, volunteered to deliver leaflets, and by 1983 she was a Cardiff city councillor.
