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==Life and career==
Born in [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]], McKinstry was educated at [[Portora Royal School]], Enniskillen, and [[Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge]], where he graduated with a degree in history in 1985, and identified himself as a
In the early 1990s, McKinstry was a [[Labour Party UK|Labour]] councillor in Islington and worked as a parliamentary aide to Labour politician [[Harriet Harman]]. Losing his seat on Islington council in 1994, he was working for Labour frontbencher [[Doug Henderson (Labour politician)|Doug Henderson]] when he announced the following year, via an article in ''[[The Spectator]]'', that he no longer supported the party.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.islingtontribune.com/news/2012/feb/vilified-labour-defector-vents-his-spleen-print-%E2%80%93-17-years-leo-mckinstry-reveals-all-s|title=Vilified Labour defector vents his spleen in print – 17 years on – Leo McKinstry reveals all to Spectator magazine|work=[[Islington Tribune]]|date=3 February 2012}}</ref> Subsequently, he was a regular columnist in both the ''Daily Mail'' and the ''Daily Express''.
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*''[[Operation Sea Lion]]: How Britain Crushed the German War Machine's Dreams of Invasion in 1940'' (2015), Harry N. Abrams, {{ISBN|9781468312560}}
*''[[Clement Attlee|Attlee]] and [[Winston Churchill|Churchill]]: Allies in War, Adversaries in Peace'' (2020), Atlantic Books, {{ISBN|1848876610}}
*''[[RAF Coastal Command|Cinderella Boys]]: The Forgotten RAF Force that Won the [[Battle of the Atlantic]]'' (2023), John Murray, {{ISBN|1529319366}}
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