Michael McCann (politician)
{{Short description|British politician (born 1964)}}
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| office = Member of Parliament for
East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
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| term_start = 6 May 2010
| term_end = 30 March 2015
| predecessor = Adam Ingram
| successor = Lisa Cameron
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| birth_place = Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland{{cite web|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U251127/|title=Who's Who|work=ukwhoswho.com}}
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is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow 2010–2015. He was formerly a councillor in South Lanarkshire, serving on the planning and estates committees.
Political career
McCann was elected as a councillor in South Lanarkshire in 2003 and 2007.
He was elected to the UK Parliament in 2010 as the MP for the East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow seat, succeeding Adam Ingram.{{cite web|url=http://www.s1strathaven.com/news/michael-mccann-elected-to-serve-strathaven-constituency.html |title=Michael McCann elected to serve Strathaven |publisher=s1Strathaven |date=7 May 2010 |accessdate=4 June 2010}} McCann was chairman of the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Party.{{cite news|last=Leftly|first=Mark|title='No deal with SNP' says chair of Scottish Labour MPs, Michael McCann|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/no-deal-with-snp-says-chair-of-scottish-labour-mps-michael-mccann-10126435.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220514/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/no-deal-with-snp-says-chair-of-scottish-labour-mps-michael-mccann-10126435.html |archive-date=14 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|accessdate=5 April 2015|work=The Independent|date=22 March 2015}} He served on the International Development Committee in the 2010–2015 Parliament{{cite web|title=Michael McCann|url=http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/mr-michael-mccann/3963|website=Parliament UK|accessdate=5 April 2015}} and is a member of Labour Friends of Israel.{{cite news |url=http://www.lfi.org.uk/in-parliament/ |title=LFI Supporters in Parliament |work=Labour Friends of Israel |date=23 March 2018}}
McCann is known to be a fierce critic of the Scottish National Party, and ruled out any formal post-election deal with them in March 2015. He lost the seat in the subsequent general election to the SNP's Lisa Cameron, one of the landslide 56 SNP MPs returned on 7 May 2015.{{cite news|url=https://www.glasgowworld.com/news/snps-dr-lisa-cameron-is-lesmahagows-new-mp-2227526|title=SNP's Dr Lisa Cameron is Lesmahagow's new MP|last=Thomson|first=Ross|date=8 May 2015|work=Glasgow World|accessdate=26 July 2022}}
At the 2019 general election, McCann backed Epsom and Ewell MP Chris Grayling, Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party, saying "a vote for anyone else is a vote for Jeremy Corbyn - and a Corbyn government would be disastrous for Britain."{{cite tweet|user=thecheechman|author=Ciccio|number=1204701830162370561|title=@MichaelMMcCann how anyone from the Labour party can support Chris Grayling in Epsom that has even the NY times called one of the most useless politicians in the UK says something more about you than it does about labour under Corbyn. Absolutely disgraceful to support Grating.}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150410181110/http://www.michaelmccann.org.uk/ archive of www.michaelmccann.org.uk]
- {{UK MP links | parliament = mr-michael-mccann/3963 | publicwhip = michael_mccann | theywork = michael_mccann}}
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Category:Councillors in South Lanarkshire
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