Andy Love is a British

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politician who was

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(MP) for

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from

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Early life

Andy Love was educated at Greenock High School on Inverkip Road before attending the

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, 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

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qualification. He was elected to the

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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

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(now part of

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), 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

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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

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when she was the minister at the

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and Department of Trade and Industry between 2001 and 2005. He was a member of the Public Accounts Committee, and was a member of the

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Select Committee from 2005 until he left Parliament ten years later. Love supported

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in the 2007 deputy leadership election. Since 1999, he has been a vice-patron of the

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Cancer Appeal. Love stood down at the 2015 general election, and was succeeded as MP for Edmonton by

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of the Labour Party.

Voting Record

How Andrew Love voted on key issues since 2000: * 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 gay rights.

Notes

External links

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Love, Andy Living people People from Greenock Labour Co-operative MPs for English constituencies Councillors in the London Borough of Haringey UK MPs 1997–2001 UK MPs 2001–2005 UK MPs 2005–2010 UK MPs 2010–2015 Labour Party (UK) councillors Year of birth missing (living people)