Karl McCartney

Quick Facts

Full Name	Karl McCartney
Date Of Birth	Oct 25, 1968(1968-10-25)
Age	56
Birthplace	Birkenhead
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Libra

Karl McCartney Biography

Karl McCartney is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on October 25, 1968 in Birkenhead, England, United Kingdom. Karl Ian McCartney (born 25 October 1968) is the Conservative Member of the Parliament of Lincoln. McCartney was initially elected at the general election of 2010 and served as the seat’s representative until the Labour candidate Karen Lee in the 2017 general election. He was elected again during the 2019 general election.

McCartney was a prominent advocate in the Parliament to tackle the gap in education between boys and girls. educational gap. In April 2012, McCartney declared that the release of the results of Department of Education’s investigation into allegations of mismanagement of money at Lincoln’s Priory Federation of Academies Trust should be delayed.

On 28 February 2013 McCartney apologised to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) for the content of notes he had sent to staff. The notes were described by IPSA Chief Executive, Andrew McDonald as ‘abusive’, ‘offensive’ and ‘condescending’. McCartney’s apology stated, “I apologise unreservedly to IPSA for my comments which were inappropriate, and which I regret having made. I accept that such comments have given cause for offence. You will not see me making similar remarks in the future in respect of IPSA, which has a difficult and important job to do.” The following month he claimed that IPSA’s incompetence had forced MPs from all parties to borrow money and that he had had to ask his parents for financial assistance. McCartney also said that he had been told by a “senior IPSA official” that the organisation intended to “damage MPs as much as possible,” a claim that IPSA said was “wild ..simply untrue.”

On Thursday 4 December 2014 McCartney was able to confirm that the £49.5m of funding for the Eastern Bypass was secure and that the Government would support in principle a future bid for the bypass to be a dual carriageway. This funding comes nearly 5 years after the original plan for a dual carriageway bypass was cancelled by the Conservative led coalition for being too costly. As of April 2015 work has not commenced and it is unclear when or if it will as it does not feature in the Coalition’s Road Investment Strategy. McCartney claimed however to have received verbal assurances from Government Ministers that the funding was secure and the project would go ahead.

McCartney got elected into the parliament in the constituency of Lincoln in the general election, beating Gillian Merron. McCartney made his first speech on the 12th of July in an election debate about Corporation Tax. McCartney was a speaker in 11 debates during 2014 which was “well below average amongst MPs” however he participated in a high 79 percent of votes. In 2012, he was elected by his Conservative members as the executive of the powerful 1922 Committee and the Transport Select Committee after which, following the general election of 2015 the same committee was re-elected to the same post. As a prominent Leave campaigner, He was selected by his peers to the Exiting the European Union Select Committee (known in the common lexicon as the “Brexit Committee’) and led the effective campaign throughout Greater Lincolnshire during the EU Referendum. After the general election of 2019, He was selected in The Guardian as one of the seven “most controversial” new Conservative MPs.

Karl McCartney Net Worth

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

McCartney was a student at Birkenhead School from 1980 to 1986, and then joined his Sixth Form in Neston County Comprehensive School. He was a geography student in St David’s University College in Lampeter (now University of Wales, Lampeter) from 1988 until 1992. In Lampeter the student union was president from 1991 until 1992, and captained the Welsh Universities First XI football team from 1990 until 1991. Later, he worked for London’s City of London. He has been a school administrator since 1995. In 1999, he earned an MBA at the Kingston Business School and became an magistrate.

McCartney reported a total of PS1,159,047.08 during the period between 2010 and 2017 in addition to his annual salary of PS74,962. The amount of expenses he paid each year increased during his time as a politician, until 2017 when he had accumulated more than PS90,000 of expenses in only six months prior to being removed from office at the time of the General Election. There was also controversy over his expenses when he employed his spouse as his “office manager,” and paid her between PS40,000 and PS45,000 in the years 2015-16.

McCartney is opposed to the idea of same-sex marriage arguing in a 2012 reply to a constituent’s letter on the matter that he felt it would next lead to “multi-partnership marriages… [and] a reduction in the age of permitted marriage”.

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