Editing Andrew MacKinlay (section)

===Notice of resignation===
On 24 July 2009, he announced that he would not stand at the next General Election due to disillusionment with the way he felt other MPs had caved in to party pressure rather than standing up for their beliefs.<ref>[http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2009/07/exclusive-andrew-mackinlay-quits.html "Andrew MacKinlay Quits Parliament"], iaindale.blogspot.com; July 2009.</ref> He said that the final straw was the failure of a number of Labour MPs who had expressed support for [[Gary McKinnon]], awaiting extradition to the U.S. on computer hacking charges, to vote for a review of the extradition treaty.<ref name=telegraph-20090725>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/5903494/Andrew-MacKinlay-MP-quits-over-hacker-Gary-McKinnons-extradition.html |title=Andrew MacKinlay MP quits over hacker Gary McKinnon's extradition |author=Matthew Moore |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=25 July 2009 |access-date=9 November 2014}}</ref>