Andrew Stuart MacKinlay (born 24 April1949, Hampstead) is a British politician. He has been the member of Parliament for Thurrock since 1992 and is a member of the Labour Party. April 24 is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (115th in leap years). ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Hampstead is a hilly and wealthy suburb of London. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... Thurrock is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... The Labour Party is the principal centrist/centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ...
He previously unsuccesfully stood for Labour in the 1983 General Election for Croydon Central and in the 1984 European Elections for the London South & Surrey East division. United Kingdom general election, 1983 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... For other Croydons see Croydon (disambiguation) Croydon is a large suburban town and commercial centre to the south of London and forms part of the Greater London conurbation. ... The European Parliament Election, 1984 was the second European election to be held in the United Kingdom. ...
In 2003 he famously described David Kelly as "chaff" during Dr. Kelly's appearance before the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. Dr. David Christopher Kelly CMG (May 17, 1944 – July 17, 2003) was an employee of the British Ministry of Defence (MoD), an expert in biological warfare, and a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq. ...
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Andrew MacKinlay MP official site
Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Andrew Mackinlay MP
The FAC inquiry was, he said, nothing to do with the dispute between Alastair Campbell and Andrew Gilligan but whether the government had exaggerated the case for war or not, and as David Kelly was the alleged source of the accusations he had to be questioned.
Mr Mackinlay however accused the defence secretary, Geoff Hoon, of a "monumental cheek" in trying to limit the areas Dr Kelly could be questioned on (he was not allowed to ask about the 45-minute claim) and said he did not believe the scientist had come forward voluntarily.
At the end of his evidence he said regretted Dr Kelly's death, had been subject to hate mail for the "chaff" line and said he was "very, very angry because I think not only Mackinlay is at stake but the future of parliament".
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