{{Short description|British Labour Co-op politician}} {{About|a British public servant|other people named Andy Love|Andrew Love (disambiguation){{!}}Andrew Love}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Use British English|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Andy Love | honorific_suffix = | image = Andrew McCulloch Love.jpg | office = Member of Parliament <br /> for Edmonton | parliament = | majority = 9,613 (23.8%) | predecessor = Ian Twinn | successor = Kate Osamor | term_start = 1 May 1997 | term_end = 30 March 2015 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1949|03|21}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = Ruth Rosenthal <small>(m. 1983-present)</small> | party = Labour Co-operative | relations = | children = | alma_mater = Strathclyde University | occupation = | profession = Politician | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Andy Love''' (born 21 March 1949) is a British Labour Co-operative politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Edmonton from 1997 to 2015.
==Early life==
Andy Love was educated at Greenock High School on Inverkip Road before attending the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, 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 Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators qualification.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}
He was elected to the London Borough of Haringey 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 Co-operative Retail Services (now part of The Co-operative Group), and in 1993 he became the parliamentary officer of the Cooperative Party.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}
==Parliamentary career== Love contested the Edmonton seat at the 1992 general election, losing by 593 votes to the incumbent Conservative 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.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/politics/constituency/921/edmonton Article], The Guardian, retrieved 5 February 2010.</ref>
In the House of Commons, he was involved in many backbench groups and campaigns; he served as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to Jacqui Smith when she was the minister at the Department of Health and Department of Trade and Industry between 2001 and 2005. He was a member of the Public Accounts Committee, and the Treasury Select Committee from 2005 until he left Parliament ten years later.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}
Love supported Peter Hain in the 2007 deputy leadership election. Since 1999, he has been a vice-patron of the Helen Rollason Cancer Appeal.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}
Love stood down at the 2015 general election,<ref>[http://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/11718590.Edmonton_MP_Andy_Love_to_step_down_before_election/?ref=mr Edmonton MP Andy Love to step down before the general election in May]</ref> and was succeeded as MP for Edmonton by Kate Osamor of the Labour Party.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/politics/constituencies/E14000687|title=Edmonton parliamentary constituency - Election 2015 - BBC News|access-date=2017-04-20|language=en-GB}}</ref>
===Voting record=== How Andrew Love voted on key issues since 2000:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/andrew_love/edmonton|title=Andrew Love, former MP, Edmonton}}</ref>
* 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== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20050522083551/http://www.andylovemp.com/ Andy Love MP] official site * [https://web.archive.org/web/20010516093746/http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,9290,-3204,00.html Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Andy Love MP] * [https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/andrew_love/edmonton TheyWorkForYou.com - Andrew Love MP] * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/mpdb/html/233.stm BBC Politics] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213165820/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/mpdb/html/233.stm |date=13 February 2009 }} * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-andy-love | Andy Love }}
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