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==Personal life== He was married firstly to Jean (''[[nΓ©e]]'' Murray), with whom he had son Hugh and daughters Yvonne and Karen, later divorcing.<ref name=autogenerated3>{{cite news|author=Jack O'Sullivan |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/addicted-son-of-minister-could-have-been-saved-1121206.html |title=Addicted son of minister 'could have been saved' |location=London |work=The Independent |date=23 September 1999 |access-date=25 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111055203/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/addicted-son-of-minister-could-have-been-saved-1121206.html |archive-date=11 November 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Hugh died aged 23 of a drugs overdose in 1999 in his flat in [[Parkhead]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/454510.stm |title=McCartney's son felt 'suicidal' |work=BBC News |date=22 September 1999 |access-date=22 September 2012 |archive-date=25 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090125044504/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/454510.stm |url-status=dead}}</ref> Hugh, known as "Shug",<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/drugs-steal-your-dreams-says-minister-who-lost-son-721182.html |title=Drugs steal your dreams, says minister who lost son β This Britain, UK β The Independent |access-date=2015-10-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100404135925/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/drugs-steal-your-dreams-says-minister-who-lost-son-721182.html |archive-date=4 April 2010}}</ref> had battled drug addiction since his teenage years. Only recently released from prison, he had been trying to break his habit.<ref name=autogenerated4>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/461961.stm |work=BBC News |date=30 September 1999 |access-date=25 November 2011 |title=Minister's emotional farewell to son |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090530052704/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/461961.stm |archive-date=30 May 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2002, McCartney gave an interview to the ''[[Sunday Herald]]'' discussing his son's experiences in the justice system and how McCartney believed "the way we deal with addicts sentenced his son to death".<ref>{{cite web|title=Sunday Herald |access-date=28 July 2010 |url=http://www.sundayherald.com/22673 |date=19 June 2002 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051207023708/http://www.sundayherald.com/22673 |archive-date=7 December 2005}}</ref> In 2003, McCartney stated in an interview he was still having break downs over the death of his only son.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=[[HighBeam Research]]|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8904064.html |title=I still break down over the death of my only son Ian McCartney gives his first interview as chairman of the Labour Party to Colin Brown |access-date=2015-10-05}}{{dead link|date=February 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> McCartney's second and current wife is Ann Kevan Parkes, whom he married in 1988.<ref name=autogenerated3/><ref name=autogenerated4/><ref>{{cite web|access-date=25 November 2011 |url=http://www.nndb.com/people/819/000159342 |title=Ian McCartney |publisher=[[NNDB]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090427151106/http://www.nndb.com/people/819/000159342 |archive-date=27 April 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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