Andy McDonald
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| Born | Andrew Joseph McDonald 8 March 1958 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Leeds Polytechnic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Andy McDonald (born 8 March 1958)[1] is a solicitor and British Labour Party politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Transport in the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn from 2016 to 2020, and later as Shadow Secretary of State for Employment Rights and Protections under Sir Keir Starmer until he resigned on 27 September 2021. He has been the Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 2012.[2]
Resignation
In a resignation letter to Keir Starmer on Monday 27 September 2021, Andy McDonald delivered a fierce rebuke of Sir Keir's leadership and policies.
He claimed he had been told by LOTO on Sunday to go into a meeting "to argue against a national minimum wage of £15 an hour and against statutory sick pay at the living wage".
"This is something I could not do," Mr McDonald wrote.
"After many months of a pandemic when we made commitments to stand by key workers, I cannot now look these same workers in the eye and tell them they are not worth a wage that is enough to live on, or that they don't deserve security when they are ill."[3]
References
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