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Born in [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]], McKinstry graduated from [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]].<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}}</ref> He writes regularly for several newspapers in the United Kingdom, including the ''[[Daily Mail]]'',<ref>{{cite news|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 |location=London}}</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 news|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= 2006-11-15|accessdate=2011-10-20 |location=London}}</ref> He often writes about issues relating to immigration. 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]], later criticising what he described as her "dangerous gospel of feminist fascism".<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1020553/Why-does-Harriet-Harman-hate-marriage.html | location=London | work=Daily Mail | first=Leo | last=McKinstry | title=Why does Harriet Harman hate marriage? | date=2008-05-20}}</ref> Losing his seat on Islington council in 1994, he was working for Labour front bencher [[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>[http://www.islingtontribune.com/news/2012/feb/vilified-labour-defector-vents-his-spleen-print-%E2%80%93-17-years-leo-mckinstry-reveals-all-s Vilified Labour defector vents his spleen in print – 17 years on - Leo McKinstry reveals all to Spectator magazine]</ref> Subsequently he was a regular columnist in both the ''[[Daily Mail]]'' and the ''[[Daily Express]]''.
McKinstry is married and lives in [[Kent]] and [[Provence]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amheath.com/profile.php?a=442 |title=Leo McKinstry |publisher=Amheath.com |date= |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref>
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