Shona McIsaac
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Shona McIsaac (born 3 April 1960, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland) is a British politician, and since 1997, she has been the Labour Member of Parliament for the Lincolnshire constituency of Cleethorpes.
[edit] Early life
She studied Geography at St. Aidan's College the University of Durham and graduated in 1981.
McIsaac wrote for magazines and was elected to the London Borough of Wandsworth.
[edit] MP for Cleethropes
McIsaac was selected for Cleethorpes from an all-women shortlist and attracted a great deal of local press attention in the run-up to the 1997 general election.
Typical of many marginal constituencies that year, Cleethorpes had a large amount of support from the central Labour Party including visits by John Prescott and a high-profile, high-visibility poster campaign.
During the various debates between the candidates, McIsaac's relaxed, conciliatory style was in stark contrast to that of her election-hardened Conservative Party opponent Michael Brown, the outgoing MP for the predecessor constituency of Brigg and Cleethorpes).
On polling day, McIsaac spent most of the day knocking on doors in the town of Immingham, formerly the strongest Labour supporting area of the constituency, ironically reminiscent of Jeffrey Archer when he represented the town over 20 years earlier. In recent years opinion in Immingham has changed and it is now represented by two Conservative and one LibDem councillor on North East Lincolnshire Council.
McIsaac and neighbouring MP Austin Mitchell tabled an early day motion in 1998 affirming support for Grimsby Town Football Club's trip to Wembley for the 1998 Auto Windscreen Shield Final and the 1998 Nationwide Division 2 Play-Off Final.
McIsaac was re-elected at the 2005 general election Despite the Conservatives deselecting their candidate just 4 months before polling day their new candidate achieved an above-average swing reducing McIsaac's majority to just 2,642.
McIsaac presently serves as Parliamentary Private Secretary to a government minister and was described as asking "sycophantic questions in the Commons" by the national newspapers in their post-2005 general election coverage.
Her majority was significantly cut in the 2005 general election, receiving 43% of the vote. The Conservative condidate received 37.3% of the votes.
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| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by: (new constituency) (pre-1997, see: Brigg and Cleethorpes) |
Member of Parliament for Cleethorpes 1997 – present |
Incumbent |
Categories: 1960 births | Living people | Natives of Fife | Current members of the United Kingdom Parliament from English constituencies | Labour MPs (UK) | Female members of the United Kingdom Parliament from English constituencies | UK MPs 1997-2001 | UK MPs 2001-2005 | UK MPs 2005- | Durham University alumni
