Ian McCartney

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ian McCartney
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Apr 25, 1951(1951-04-25)
Age	73
Birthplace	Lennoxtown
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Scotland
Horoscope	Aries

Ian McCartney Biography

Ian McCartney is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on April 25, 1951 in Lennoxtown, Scotland, United Kingdom. Sir Ian McCartney (born 25 April 1951) is a British Labour politician who served as MP (MP) in Makerfield between 1987 and 2010 He was a member of the Cabinet from 2003 until 2007 in the year Gordon Brown became Prime Minister. He was appointed the Knight Bachelor in the 2010 Dissolution Honours List.

McCartney was appointed Minister of State by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) after the general election in 1997, in which Labour took over. At the DTI McCartney rolled out a huge package of employment rights which included whistleblower protection, legislation on the National Minimum Wage and the first time that a holiday is paid and also pushed his way through the Competition Act through Parliament. Being a low-paid employee who was fired for seeking a pound wage increase after having children, McCartney later described the minimum wage as a major issue for him, and said that McCartney would have “died in the ditch” in the absence of the right to it. In the time of his retirement, McCartney also was responsible for the employment relationship as well as working with the Post Office, Company Law and investments in outwards.

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 as Minister Without Portfolio and Party Chair in April 2003.

Hugh, known as “Shug”, had battled drug addiction since his teenage years. Only recently released from prison, he had been trying to break his habit. 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”. In 2003, McCartney stated in an interview he was still having break downs over the death of his only son.

McCartney’s current and second wife has been Ann Kevan Parkes, whom married in the year 1988.

Ian McCartney Net Worth

Ian McCartney is one of the richest Politician from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ian McCartney 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Attended Lenzie Academy, he left the school at fifteen “under a bit of a cloud” with no qualifications. He led a schoolboys strike when he was 15 and held many jobs after leaving school, including seaman as well as an official in the local government manual and a kitchen employee. He was a councillor for the Abram Ward in Wigan between 1982 and 1987.

McCartney was elected MP for Makerfield after the general election. McCartney was among the original founders of the All-Party Parliamentary Rugby League Group in the same year, and served as its the first chairman. He held several post during Labour’s time in opposition, and also served as an official spokesperson on Health, Employment, Education and Social Services. The year 1994 was the time he led John Prescott’s winning election to Labour’s Deputy Leader. McCartney was among the MPs with the lowest height, standing 5 feet and 1 inch tall. He referred to himself on his paper as “Socialist MP for Makerfield”.

He was married firstly to Jean (née Murray), with whom he had son Hugh and daughters Yvonne and Karen, later divorcing. Hugh died aged 23 of a drugs overdose in 1999 in his flat in Parkhead.

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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 disc injury and was possibly facing further surgery.

Facts & Trivia

Ian Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Ian McCartney celebrates birthday on April 25 of every year.

McCartney was chair of Healthwatch Wigan, resigning from the post in 2016.