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Line 1: {{short description\|British journalist and writer}} '''Leo McKinstry''' is a is [[United Kingdom\|British]] [[author]] and [[journalist]] who was born in [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]]. McKinstry writes regularly for several publications in the United Kingdom, including the [[Daily Mail]],<ref>{{cite web\|author=Leo Mckinstry \|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1239051/LEO-McKINSTRY-Sorry-join-liberal-wailing-heroin-traffickers-deserve-die.html \|title=LEO McKINSTRY: Sorry not to join the liberal wailing: heroin traffickers deserve to die \| Mail Online \|publisher=Dailymail.co.uk \|date=2009-12-31 \|accessdate=2011-10-20}}</ref> [[Daily Express]],<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/278466/Dale-Farm-fiasco-should-have-been-resolved-years-ago \|title=Home of the Daily and Sunday Express \| Columnists :: Dale Farm fiasco should have been resolved years ago \|publisher=Express.co.uk \|date= \|accessdate=2011-10-20}}</ref> and [[The Sunday Telegraph]].<ref>{{cite web\|author=Personal View \|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3634265/In-defence-of-the-white-working-class.html \|title=In defence of the white working class \|publisher=Telegraph \|date= \|accessdate=2011-10-20}}</ref> His books include a biography of the Victorian Prime Minister, [[Lord Rosebery]]. {{Use dmy dates\|date=February 2019}} {{Use British English\|date=September 2016}} '''Leo McKinstry''' (born 1962) is a British [[journalist]], [[historian]] and [[author]]. ==~~Bibliography~~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 Trotskyist.<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/books/saving-the-plane-that-won-battle-of-britain-28066753.html\|title=Saving the plane that won Battle of Britain\|newspaper=Belfasttelegraph.co.uk \|via=www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=http://marketing.harpercollins.co.uk/Contents/Author/Pages/Authors.aspx?objId=3903 \|title=Leo McKinstry Biography \|publisher=Harper Collins Publishers \|date= \|accessdate=14 October 2012 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925202712/http://marketing.harpercollins.co.uk/Contents/Author/Pages/Authors.aspx?objId=3903 \|archive-date=25 September 2013 \|url-status=dead }}</ref> He writes regularly for several newspapers in the United Kingdom, including the ''[[Daily Mail]]'',<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/Columnists/Column/0,5673,368280,00.html\|title=Middle of the road protest \| Columnists\|website=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> ''[[Daily Express]]'',<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-the-papers-49629815\|title=Is PM 'in retreat' or preparing a 'cunning plan'?\|publisher=BBC News\|date=9 September 2019}}</ref> and ''[[The Sunday Telegraph]]''.<ref>{{cite news \|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3634265/In-defence-of-the-white-working-class.html \|title=In defence of the white working class \|work=The Daily Telegraph \|date= 15 November 2006\|accessdate=20 October 2011 \|location=London}}</ref> He often writes about issues relating to immigration and the [[European Union]], being a strong supporter of [[Brexit]]. His books include a biography of the Victorian Prime Minister, [[Lord Rosebery]]. 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''. ''Boycs: The True Story'' (2000)▼ ''Jack and Bobby: A story of brothers in conflict''(2002)▼ McKinstry is married and lives in [[Kent]] and [[Provence]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://amheath.com/authors/leo-mckinstry/ \|title=Leo McKinstry \|publisher=Amheath.com \|date= \|accessdate=7 January 2019}}</ref> ''Rosebery: Statesman in Turmoil'' (2005) ''Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager'' (2006)▼ ==Awards and honours== ''Spitfire: Portrait of a Legend'' (2007)▼ 2003 [[British Sports Book Awards]] (Best Biography), ''Jack & Bobby''<ref name=bsba>{{cite web \|url=https://sportsbookawards.com/previous-winners/\|title=Previous winners \|publisher=[[British Sports Book Awards]] \|author= \|date= \|accessdate=29 March 2020}}</ref> ''Lancaster: The Second World War's Greatest Bomber'' (2009)▼ 2007 [[British Sports Book Awards]] (Best Football Book), ''Sir Alf''<ref name=bsba/> ''Hurricane: Victor of the Battle of Britain'' (2010)▼ ''Jack Hobbs'' (2011) ==Bibliography== ''Fit to Govern: A Former Labour Activist Asks: Can [[Tony Blair]]'s Party be Trusted to Run Britain?'' (1996), [[Bantam Press]], {{ISBN\|0593039807}} ▲''[[Boycs]]: The True Story'' (2000), [[Partridge Press]], {{ISBN\|1852252790}} ▲''[[Jack Charlton\|Jack]] and [[Bobby Charlton\|Bobby]]: A story of brothers in conflict'' (2002), [[HarperCollins]] UK, {{ISBN\|0007118767}} ''[[Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery\|Rosebery]]: Statesman in Turmoil'' (2005), [[John Murray Publishers]], {{ISBN\|0719558794}} ▲''[[Alf Ramsey\|Sir Alf]]: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager'' (2006), HarperCollins UK, {{ISBN\|0007193785}} ▲''[[Spitfire]]: Portrait of a Legend'' (2007), [[Hodder & Stoughton]], {{ISBN\|0719568757}} ▲''[[Avro Lancaster\|Lancaster]]: The Second World War's Greatest Bomber'' (2009), Hodder & Stoughton, {{ISBN\|0719523532}} ▲''[[Hawker Hurricane\|Hurricane]]: Victor of the [[Battle of Britain]]'' (2010), Hodder & Stoughton, {{ISBN\|1848543395}} ''[[Jack Hobbs]]: England's Greatest Cricketer'' (2011), Yellow Jersey Press, {{ISBN\|0224083295}} ''[[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}} ==References== Line 16 ⟶ 33: ==External links== [http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/author,269,leo-mckinstry Biography] at The First Post [https://web.archive.org/web/20130204143416/http://www.amheath.com/profile.php?a=442 Agent biography] {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:McKinstry, Leo}}▼ ~~[[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]~~ [[Category:People from Belfast]]▼ [[Category:British writers]]▼ [[Category:Journalists from Northern Ireland]]▼ ▲{{DEFAULTSORT:~~McKinstry~~Mckinstry, Leo}} ~~{{UK-journalist-stub}}~~ [[Category:1962 births]] ~~{{NI-bio-stub}}~~ [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge]] [[Category:People educated at Portora Royal School]] ▲[[Category:British ~~writers~~male journalists]] [[Category:Daily Mail journalists]] ▲[[Category:~~People~~Journalists from Belfast]] [[Category:Labour Party (UK) councillors]] [[Category:Councillors in the London Borough of Islington]] ▲[[Category:~~Journalists~~Male non-fiction writers from Northern Ireland]]