Editing Andrew MacKinlay (section)

==Early life and career==
MacKinlay was born in [[Wembley]] on 24 April 1949.<ref>{{Cite news |year=1997 |title=Profile: Andrew MacKinlay |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/politics97/mps/565.shtml |access-date=1 January 2025 |work=BBC News: Politics '97}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Roth |first=Andrew |date=16 March 2001 |title=Profile: Andrew MacKinlay |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/mar/16/profiles.parliament13 |access-date=1 January 2025 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> He was educated successively at St Joseph's School, Wembley;<ref>{{Cite web|title=One reason why I am interested in...|url=https://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2009-03-10b.16.2|access-date=2021-02-27|website=TheyWorkForYou|language=en}}</ref> Our Lady Immaculate Primary School, [[Tolworth]];<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oli.kingston.sch.uk/index.asp|title=	Our Lady Immaculate Catholic Primary School|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071004222202/http://www.oli.kingston.sch.uk/index.asp|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 October 2007|date=4 October 2007}}</ref> Salesian College (a private [[Catholic]] school at the time), now comprehensive [[Salesian School (Chertsey)|Salesian School]] in [[Chertsey]] and Kingston College, now part of the [[South Thames Colleges Group|South Thames College Group]]. 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 as a Labour councillor in 1971 in the [[Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames]] and served for two terms as one of two councillors for the ward of Tolworth West until 1978.<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://www.electionscentre.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Kingston-Upon-Thames-1964-2010.pdf|title=Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames Election Results 1964-2010|publisher=The Elections Centre Plymouth University|year=2012|pages=4–5}}</ref> He unsuccessfully vied for [[Surbiton (UK Parliament constituency)|his local seat of Surbiton]] in both of the 1974 general elections, keeping his [[Election deposit|deposit]] in what was then demonstrably a three-party contest.<ref>[http://www.thurrocklabourparty.org.uk Thurrock Labour Party profile] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081226014256/http://www.thurrocklabourparty.org.uk/ |date=26 December 2008 }}; accessed 6 August 2014.</ref>