Editing Ian McCartney

{{Short description|British Labour Party politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]] Sir
|name             = Ian McCartney
|image=Minister_of_State_for_Trade,_UK,_Mr._Ian_McCartney,_in_New_Delhi_on_November_27,_2006_(cropped).jpg
|caption=McCartney in 2006
|office           = [[Minister of State for Trade]]
|primeminister    = [[Tony Blair]]
|term_start       = 5 May 2006
|term_end         = 27 June 2007
|predecessor      = [[Ian Pearson]]
|successor        = [[Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham|The Lord Jones of Birmingham]]
|office1         = [[National Executive Committee (Labour Party)|Chairman of the Labour Party]]
|leader1         = [[Tony Blair]]
|term_start1     = 4 April 2003
|term_end1       = 5 May 2006
|predecessor1    = [[John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan|John Reid]]
|successor1      = [[Hazel Blears]]
|office2          = [[Minister without portfolio (United Kingdom)|Minister without Portfolio]]
|primeminister2   = [[Tony Blair]]
|term_start2      = 4 April 2003
|term_end2        = 5 May 2006
|predecessor2     = [[John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan|John Reid]]
|successor2       = [[Hazel Blears]]
|office3          = [[Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Pensions and Financial Inclusion#List of Ministers|Minister of State for Pensions]]
|primeminister3   = [[Tony Blair]]
|term_start3      = 8 June 2001
|term_end3        = 4 April 2003
|predecessor3     = [[Jeff Rooker]]
|successor3       = [[Malcolm Wicks]]
|office4          = [[Cabinet Office|Minister of State for the Cabinet Office]]
|primeminister4   = [[Tony Blair]]
|term_start4      = 28 July 1999
|term_end4        = 11 June 2001
|predecessor4     = [[Peter Kilfoyle]]
|successor4       = [[Barbara Roche]]
|office5          = [[Minister of State for Competitiveness]]
|primeminister5   = [[Tony Blair]]
|term_start5      = 5 May 1997
|term_end5        = 28 July 1999
|predecessor5     = ''Office established''
|successor5       = [[Douglas Alexander]] (2001)
|office6          = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] <br /> for [[Makerfield (UK Parliament constituency)|Makerfield]]
|term_start6      = 12 June 1987
|term_end6        = 12 April 2010
|predecessor6     = [[Michael McGuire (Member of Parliament)|Michael McGuire]]
|successor6       = [[Yvonne Fovargue]]
|birth_date       = {{birth date and age|1951|4|25|df=y}}
|birth_place      = [[Lennoxtown]], Scotland
|death_date       =
|death_place      =
|party            = [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
|website          = [http://www.ianmccartney.com Ianmccartney.com]}}

'''Sir Ian McCartney''' (born 25 April 1951) is a British [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] politician who served as [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Makerfield (UK Parliament constituency)|Makerfield]] from [[1987 United Kingdom general election|1987]] to [[2010 United Kingdom general election|2010]]. McCartney served in [[Tony Blair]]'s Cabinet from 2003 until 2007, when [[Gordon Brown]] became [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]]. He was made a [[Knight Bachelor]] in the 2010 [[Dissolution Honours List]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Peerages, honours and appointments|url=http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/latest-news/2010/05/peerages-honours-and-appointments-51162|publisher=[[10 Downing Street|Number 10]]|date=28 May 2010 |access-date=25 November 2011}}</ref>

==Early life==
He was born in [[Lennoxtown]], [[Stirlingshire]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nndb.com/people/819/000159342/ |title=Ian McCartney |publisher=Nndb.com |access-date=2015-10-05}}</ref> to future Labour MP for [[East Dunbartonshire (UK Parliament constituency)|East Dunbartonshire]] [[Hugh McCartney]] and his wife, Margaret, a trade unionist. McCartney had two sisters, Irene and Margaret.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://johnstonpress.iannounce.mobi/kirkintilloch-herald/obituary/margaret-ferguson/47770823 |title=Legacy |access-date=2016-08-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818194328/http://johnstonpress.iannounce.mobi/kirkintilloch-herald/obituary/margaret-ferguson/47770823 |archive-date=18 August 2016}}</ref>

Educated at [[Lenzie Academy]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kirkintilloch-herald.co.uk/news/local-headlines/ian_is_labour_s_top_man_1_360199|title=Ian is Labour's top man|work=Kirkintilloch Herald|date=8 April 2003|access-date=25 November 2011|archive-date=1 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001105232/http://www.kirkintilloch-herald.co.uk/news/local-headlines/ian_is_labour_s_top_man_1_360199|url-status=dead}}</ref> he left the school at the age of 15 "under a bit of a cloud" without any qualifications.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-23693420.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611103850/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-23693420.html |url-status=dead |archive-date= 2014-06-11 |title=The rise of little big man |publisher=[[HighBeam Research]] |access-date=2015-10-05}}</ref> He led a paper-boys' strike at the age of fifteen,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/columnists/maguire/2009/05/27/mac-s-still-a-great-mp-115875-21392228 |title=Ian McCartney will be missed as an MP |work=[[Daily Mirror]] |access-date=25 November 2011 |date=2009-05-26}}</ref> and had a number of jobs after leaving school, including a seaman, a local government manual worker, and a kitchen worker.<ref name=autogenerated5>{{cite news |work=[[BBC News Online]] |date=13 May 2011 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13350711 |title=Minimum wage: Ex-MP Ian McCartney recalls its introduction |access-date=25 November 2011 |archive-date=13 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110513082607/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13350711 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He was a councillor for [[Abram, Greater Manchester|Abram]] ward in [[Metropolitan Borough of Wigan|Wigan]] from 1982 to 1987.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4zNAAAAAIBAJ&dq=wigan%20councilor%20ian%20mccartney&pg=5262%2C2122628 |title=Learning from Scotland |work=[[The Glasgow Herald]]}}</ref>

==Parliamentary career==
McCartney became the [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|MP]] for [[Makerfield (UK Parliament constituency)|Makerfield]] following the [[1987 United Kingdom general election|1987 general election]]. He was one of the founders of the All-Party Parliamentary Rugby League Group the same year, and was its first chairman.<ref>{{cite news |author=Andy Wilson |date=5 March 2010 |access-date=25 November 2011 |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/mar/05/royal-navy-challenge-cup-blackpool |title=Royal Navy ready to break new ground against Blackpool in Challenge Cup |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100308055057/http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/mar/05/royal-navy-challenge-cup-blackpool |archive-date=8 March 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He held a number of positions during Labour's period in opposition, and was variously a spokesman on Health, Employment, Education and Social Services. In 1994, he ran John Prescott's successful campaign to become Labour's [[Deputy Leader]]. McCartney was one of the shortest MPs, standing five feet, one inch tall. He described himself on his parliamentary notepaper as the "Socialist MP for Makerfield".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1430328/How-the-fast-food-failure-is-now-a-quickfire-success.html |title=How the fast-food failure is now a quickfire success |date=17 May 2003 |access-date=25 November 2011 |location=London |first=Rachel |last=Sylvester |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331001037/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1430328/How-the-fast-food-failure-is-now-a-quickfire-success.html |archive-date=31 March 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

On 23 May 2009, McCartney announced he would not stand again at the [[2010 United Kingdom general election|2010 general election]] due to poor health.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8065113.stm |title=Senior Labour MP is to stand down |work=BBC News |date=23 May 2009 |access-date=25 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090527134513/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8065113.stm |archive-date=27 May 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5373428/Labour-MP-Ian-McCartney-to-stand-down.html |title=Labour MP Ian McCartney to stand down |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=23 May 2009 |access-date=25 November 2011 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090529195613/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5373428/Labour-MP-Ian-McCartney-to-stand-down.html |archive-date=29 May 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=autogenerated2>{{cite web |publisher=[[Sky News]] |date=23 May 2009 |url=http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/MPs-Expenses-Former-SAS-Officer-John-Wick-Named-As-Whistleblower-By-Daily-Telegraph/Article/200905415287200 |title=Sky News: MPs' Expenses: Andrew Mackay and Ian McCartney to Quit at Next Election after Telegraph Revelations |access-date=25 November 2011 |archive-date=25 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090525102508/http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/MPs-Expenses-Former-SAS-Officer-John-Wick-Named-As-Whistleblower-By-Daily-Telegraph/Article/200905415287200 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Ministerial career===
McCartney was made [[Minister of State for Competitiveness]] at the [[Department of Trade and Industry (United Kingdom)|Department of Trade and Industry]] (DTI) following the [[1997 United Kingdom general election|1997 general election]] when Labour came to power.<ref name=autogenerated5/> While at the DTI, he steered the [[Competition Act 1998]] through the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] and introduced a major package of new employment rights which included whistleblowing protection, the National Minimum Wage and the first-ever right to paid holidays.<ref name=autogenerated5/> As a former low-paid worker who had been sacked upon asking for a pound pay rise after having a child, McCartney later described the minimum wage as very important to him, saying that he would have "died in the ditch" for it.<ref name=autogenerated5/> During this time he was also responsible for [[employment relations]], the Post Office, Company Law and inward investment.

He was moved to be [[Minister of State]] at the [[Cabinet Office]] in 1999, where he was responsible for modernising Government and E-Government. During this year his [[drug addict]] son Hugh McCartney died of a [[heroin]] overdose in a Glasgow tenement block. In 2001, McCartney became Minister of State for Pensions at the [[Department for Work and Pensions]], and he was promoted to the [[cabinet of the United Kingdom|Cabinet]] as [[Minister without portfolio (United Kingdom)|Minister Without Portfolio]] and [[Chairman of the Labour Party (UK)|Party Chairman]] in April 2003.

Between October 2004 and October 2005, he was Chairman of the Labour Party in two capacities – as the Party Chair (appointed by the party's leader) with a seat in the Cabinet, and as the Chair of the [[National Executive Committee (Labour Party)|National Executive Committee]] (elected by the members of the NEC). He was also chair of the party's [[National Policy Forum]], which formulates Labour party policy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Society/documents/2003/06/03/health.pdf |title=National Policy Forum Consultation Document : Improving health and social care |publisher=Image.guardian.co.uk |access-date=2015-10-05}}</ref> The NPF also oversaw the 'Big Conversation' project, which saw the Labour Government try to consult the general public on the future direction of party and government policy. Trusted by both leadership and membership, he was seen as a key link between the Government and the wider Labour movement.{{citation needed|date=July 2011}}

He worked to make the role of Party Chair a voice for Labour Party members within the Labour Government. As architect of the [[Warwick Agreement]] by Labour's National Policy Forum, he was a key figure in co-ordinating the election manifesto for Labour's third term general election campaign. In 2006 he took a three-month leave of absence following [[heart bypass surgery]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Landberg |first=Reed V. |title=U.K. Labour Party Chairman to Undergo Heart Bypass Operation |date=5 October 2005 |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aNt.YwcPPzJQ&refer=uk |publisher=Bloomberg |access-date=25 November 2011 |archive-date=5 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105214428/http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aNt.YwcPPzJQ&refer=uk |url-status=dead}}</ref> and publicly told of his fight to lose weight for the sake of his health. His return to frontline politics was marked by his speech to the Labour Party 2006 Spring Conference in Blackpool in which he shed a tear while celebrating 100 years of the [[Parliamentary Labour Party]]. He returned to government as [[Minister of State for Trade]] in May 2006, attending Cabinet but not voting there, but stepped down in 2007 when [[Gordon Brown]] became [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]].

Beginning in October 2007, McCartney worked with the construction, engineering and nuclear energy company Fluor, providing them with advice in anti-corruption and business ethics policies; political, economic, environmental and regulatory issues; and outside relations including working with trade unions. After details of this position were published in ''[[The Independent]]'', McCartney stated unequivocally that he personally received none of the remuneration for this role, instead using part of the fee to employ someone in the House of Commons from his Makerfield constituency. The remainder was used to support the Women's Interlink Foundation,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.womensinterlinkfoundation.org |title=Welcome to womensinterlinkfoundation |publisher=Womensinterlinkfoundation.org |access-date=25 November 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |publisher=Complaints.pccwatch.co.uk |url=http://complaints.pccwatch.co.uk/case/1024/ |title=Mr Ian McCartney MP v The Independent |date=31 March 2009 |access-date=25 November 2011 |archive-date=13 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813220516/http://complaints.pccwatch.co.uk/case/1024/ |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Ian McCartney MP – Corrections |date=17 October 2008 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/corrections/ian-mccartney-mp-963732.html |work=[[The Independent]] |access-date=25 November 2011 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111141737/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/corrections/ian-mccartney-mp-963732.html |archive-date=11 November 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> a charity based in India which rescues street children and disadvantaged women who are exposed to poverty and sometimes at the risk of rape and murder, providing them with clean drinking water, health treatments, housing and education.

In August 2008, after admitting that some of his claims for furnishing his second home were "inappropriate", McCartney repaid £15,000 of expenses claimed for among other items, a dining table, 18-piece dinner set and champagne glasses. McCartney had asked for the review; although only a portion of the amount was deemed excessive, he said he felt strongly that the full amount should be returned. He commented that as a senior minister he held meetings at home and "had to feed guests".<ref name=autogenerated1/><ref>{{cite news |last=Allen |first=Nick |location=London |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5339908/Ian-McCartney-claimed-for-champagne-flutes-and-700-table-and-chairs-MPs-expenses.html |title=Ian McCartney claimed for champagne flutes and £700 table and chairs: MPs expenses |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=17 May 2009 |access-date=25 November 2011 |archive-date=20 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090520074345/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5339908/Ian-McCartney-claimed-for-champagne-flutes-and-700-table-and-chairs-MPs-expenses.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In May 2009, after stepping down citing health issues, McCartney said his family had urged him to step down following a further bout of illness after his 2005 heart surgery, and that he was also being treated for [[Spinal disc herniation|disc injury]] and was possibly facing further surgery.<ref>{{cite news|work=[[Reuters]] |date=23 May 2009 |title=Former Labour party chairman stepping down as MP |access-date=25 November 2011 |url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-mccartney-idUKTRE54M0ZE20090523 |first=Tim |last=Castle |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018130449/http://uk.reuters.com/article/2009/05/23/uk-britain-mccartney-idUKTRE54M0ZE20090523 |archive-date=18 October 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |work=[[Manchester Evening News]] |url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/mccartney-to-quit-920392 |title=McCartney to quit |archive-date=31 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331052711/http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/mccartney-to-quit-920392 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Police and policing, Labour, MPs' expenses |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/may/23/police-labour |location=London |work=The Guardian |date=23 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090529231025/http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/may/23/police-labour |archive-date=29 May 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==After Parliament==
McCartney was chair of [[HealthWatch England|Healthwatch]] Wigan, resigning from the post in 2016.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wigantoday.net/news/local/child-deaths-outrage-1-6996471 |title=Child deaths "outrage" |publisher=Wigan Today |date=2014-12-10 |access-date=2015-10-05}}</ref>

==Personal life==
He was married firstly to Jean (''[[née]]'' 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 – This Britain, UK – 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>

==References==
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==External links==
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*[https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/sep/22/gerardseenan.ewenmacaskill Article on McCartney], ''[[The Guardian]]''
*[http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,9290,-3821,00.html Guardian Unlimited Politics – Ask Aristotle: Ian McCartney MP]
*[https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/ian_mccartney/makerfield TheyWorkForYou.com – Ian McCartney MP]
*[http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpn=Ian_McCartney&mpc=Makerfield The Public Whip – Ian McCartney] voting record

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