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British journalist and writer
Leo McKinstry (born 1962) is a British
journalist ,
historian and
author .
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 Trotskyite.
[1]
[2] He writes regularly for several newspapers in the United Kingdom, including the
Daily Mail ,
[3]
Daily Express ,
[4] and
The Sunday Telegraph .
[5] 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 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 when he announced the following year, via an article in
The Spectator , that he no longer supported the party.
[6] Subsequently, he was a regular columnist in both the Daily Mail and the Daily Express .
McKinstry is married and lives in
Kent and
Provence .
[7]
Awards and honours
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 and
Bobby : A story of brothers in conflict (2002),
HarperCollins UK,
ISBN
0007118767
Rosebery : Statesman in Turmoil (2005),
John Murray Publishers ,
ISBN
0719558794
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
Lancaster : The Second World War's Greatest Bomber (2009), Hodder & Stoughton,
ISBN
0719523532
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
Attlee and
Churchill : Allies in War, Adversaries in Peace (2020), Atlantic Books,
ISBN
1848876610
Cinderella Boys : The Forgotten RAF Force that Won the
Battle of the Atlantic (2023), John Murray,
ISBN
1529319366
References
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