Who was MP for Makerfield from 1987 to 2010?
Ian McCartney is Ann Kevan Parkes, whom he married in 1988. Ian McCartney Sir Ian McCartney (born 25 April 1951) is a British Labour politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Makerfield between 1987 and 2010, and served in the Cabinet from 2003 to 2007, when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister. He was made a Knight Bachelor in the 2010 Dissolution Honours List. He was born in Lennoxtown, Stirlingshire, to the Labour MP for Dunbartonshire East, Hugh McCartney, and his wife, Margaret, a trade unionist. McCartney had two sisters, Irene and Margaret. Educated at Lenzie Academy, he left the school at
Makerfield (UK Parliament constituency) Makerfield (UK Parliament constituency) Makerfield is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Yvonne Fovargue of the Labour Party. This seat was formed in 1983 mostly from the Ince and Wigan seats however with some of the Leigh seat. Makerfield is on some calculations, particularly a historical measure based on the period of time since a previous party served the area, the safest Labour seat in the country — with its predecessor constituencies, it has been held by Labour since the Parliamentary Labour Party was formed in 1906. In 2010 the constituency,