Andrew MacKinlay
| Andrew MacKinlay | |
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Member of Parliament for Thurrock |
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In office 10 April 1992 – 12 April 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Timothy Janman |
| Succeeded by | Jackie Doyle-Price |
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24 April 1949 London, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Ruth Segar; 3 children |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Andrew Stuart MacKinlay (born 24 April 1949) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Thurrock from 1992 until he stepped down at the 2010 general election.
MacKinlay was educated variously at St Joseph's School, Wembley; Our Lady Immaculate Primary School, Tolworth; Salesian College (a private Catholic school at the time), now a comprehensive called Salesian School, (Highfield Road, Chertsey), and Kingston College. He worked from 1965 as a committee clerk with Surrey County Council until 1975, when he served as a union official with the National and Local Government Officers Association (NALGO). He joined NALGO in 1965. He joined the Labour Party in 1966. MacKinlay was elected councillor in 1971 in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and served for seven years.
He stood unsuccessfully for Labour in the following elections:
In 2003, MacKinlay famously described Dr David Kelly as "chaff" during Dr. Kelly's appearance before the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. The Committee was investigating issues around the British government's dossier on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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