Iain McNicol
| Iain McNicol | |
|---|---|
| General Secretary of the Labour Party | |
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Assumed office 19 July 2011 |
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| Leader |
Jeremy Corbyn Harriet Harman (acting) Ed Miliband |
| Preceded by | Ray Collins |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 August 1969 |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | Dundee Institute of Technology |
| Occupation | Political organiser, trade unionist |
Iain McNicol (born 17 August 1969) is a British Labour politician and trade unionist. He is the General Secretary of the Labour Party, the most senior employee of the Labour Party, following on from being National Political Officer of the GMB Union, and has a long history of organising in both the Labour Party and the trade union movement.
McNicol began his involvement in political organising as president of the Student Union at Dundee Institute of Technology in 1991.
He then moved to the Labour Party, first in an elected role as National Campaigns and Membership Officer for Labour Students, and then variously as an organiser and agent in south and east England from 1994 to 1997.
Following the United Kingdom general election, 1997 at which Labour returned to office, McNicol served as a research, organisation, and political officer with the GMB Union, and in 1998 he was appointed as a regional organiser for its Southern Region. McNicol continued in that role until 2004, when he was promoted to National Political Officer. He served in that capacity through to 2011, coordinating the political strategy of the union and representing its members’ interests in both the public and private sector.
On 19 July 2011, Labour’s National Executive Committee selected McNicol to become the party’s next General Secretary under leader Ed Miliband.
In June and July 2016, McNicol had a difficult role in the 2016 Labour Party leadership crisis. The Financial Times reported that the office of the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn believed that McNicol tried to prevent Corbyn from attending a crucial National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting, and was complicit in trying to exclude Corbyn from entering the forthcoming leadership election. It reported that senior figures in the trade union movement were discussing replacement options for McNicol in his General Secretary role.
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