Tony McNulty

Tony McNulty (2008)

Anthony "Tony" James McNulty (born November 3, 1958 in Kensington , London ) is a British Labor Party politician who represented the constituency of Harrow East in the House of Commons for several years and held several ministerial offices.

Life

Professional activity and member of the House of Commons

After attending Salvatorian College in the London Borough of Harrow and the Stanmore Sixth Form College , which is also located there, McNulty studied political science at the University of Liverpool , where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA Political Theory and Institutions), and at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University , from which he graduated with a Master of Arts (MA Political Science). After graduating, he became Senior Lecturer in Organizational Theory at the University of North London . In addition, he began his political career in local politics and was a member of the council of the Borough of Harrow and temporarily chairman of the Labor faction there .

After he ran unsuccessfully in the 1992 general election in the Harrow East constituency , he was elected to the House of Commons for the first time in the general election of May 1, 1997 as a candidate for the Labor Party and represented the Harrow East constituency until 2010 . In the following years he was first in May 1997 Private Parliamentary Secretary of David Blunkett , the Minister for Education and Employment, and then from July 1999 to June 2001 Assistant Whip of the Government Group in the House of Commons, before he was subsequently Whip of the Government Group and Lords Commissioner in the Treasury .

Government offices and resignation as Minister of State

He then became Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in May 2002 in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and then in June 2003 in the Ministry of Transport and from September 2004 to May 2005 Minister of State in the Ministry of Transport. In May 2005 he moved to the Ministry of the Interior ( Home Office ) as Minister of State and worked there until October 2008. During this time he was Minister of State, in particular from May 2005 to May 2006, responsible for immigration, naturalization and citizenship, between May and June 2007 for security, counter-terrorism and police, and from August 2007 to October 2008 for security, counter-terrorism, crime and police.

In October 2008 he became Minister of State in the Ministry of Labor and Pensions, where he was initially responsible for Welfare Reform and Minister for London until February 2009 and then Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform and Minister for London from February to June 2009. In the wake of the spending scandal among British MPs and government officials over unjustified spending on second homes and other services, he resigned from his ministerial office on June 5, 2009, although he had previously defended these expenditures.

In the 2010 general election , he suffered an electoral defeat against his conservative challenger Bob Blackman , who captured the constituency of Harrow East with 44.7 percent of the vote , while McNulty got just 37.6 percent and thus lost his seat in the House of Commons in second place.

Web links

• Tony McNulty at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You
• Tony McNulty: Electoral history and profile ( Memento of March 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). In: The Guardian (accessed December 19, 2011)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Tony McNulty quits Government in wake of expenses row . In: The Daily Telegraph, June 6, 2009
2. ^ McNulty defends expenses claims . In: BBC News of March 22, 2009
3. ↑ Tony McNulty, Benefit Cheat ( memento of the original from March 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: The Spectator of March 26, 2009