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Preceded by
  
Spouse
  
Ruth Rosenthal (m. 1983)

Majority
  
9,613 (23.8%)

Profession
  
Politician


Nationality
  
British

Name
  
Andy Love

Party
  
Labour Party

Role
  
British Politician

Succeeded by
  
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Born
  
21 March 1949 (age 75) Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland (
1949-03-21
)

Alma mater
  
Strathclyde University

Political party
  
Labour Co-operative

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Andrew McCulloch Love (born 21 March 1949) is a British Labour Co-operative politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Edmonton from 1997 to 2015, winning in 2010 with 53.7% of the vote.

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Early life

Born in Greenock, Andy Love was educated at Greenock High School (became Inverclyde Academy in 2007) on Inverkip Road before attending the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where he was awarded a BSc degree. He moved to London in 1974 and joined the Labour Party the following year. He studied for the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators qualification.

He was elected to the London Borough of Haringey Council in 1980 for two terms and chaired both the council's finance and housing committees. He also served as a member of the North East Thames Regional Health Authority. In 1985 he became the political secretary for Co-operative Retail Services (now part of The Co-operative Group), and in 1993 he became the parliamentary officer of the Cooperative Party.

Parliamentary career

Love contested the Edmonton seat at the 1992 general election, losing by 593 votes to the incumbent Conservative MP Ian Twinn. In the Labour landslide at the 1997 general election, he unseated Twinn, with a majority of 13,472 votes, and Labour has retained the seat ever since.

In the House of Commons, he was involved in many backbench groups and campaigns and served as has acted as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to Jacqui Smith when she was the minister at the Department of Health and Department of Trade and Industry between 2001-2005. He was a member of the Public Accounts Committee, and was a member of the Treasury Select Committee from 2005 until he left Parliament ten years later.

Love supported Peter Hain in the 2007 deputy leadership election. Since 1999, he has been a vice-patron of the Helen Rollason Cancer Appeal.

Love stood down at the 2015 general election, and was succeeded as MP for Edmonton by Kate Osamor of the Labour Party.

Voting Record

How Andrew Love voted on key issues since 2000 (They Work For You):

  • Has never voted on a transparent Parliament.
  • Voted for introducing a smoking ban.
  • Voted for introducing ID cards.
  • Voted for introducing foundation hospitals.
  • Voted for introducing student top-up fees.
  • Voted for Labour's anti-terrorism laws.
  • Voted for the Iraq War.
  • Voted against investigating the Iraq war.
  • Voted for replacing Trident.
  • Voted for the hunting ban.
  • Voted for equal rights for homosexuals.
  • Personal life

    Love married Ruth Rosenthal in 1983 in Haringey.

    References

    Andy Love Wikipedia


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