Andrew Robert McIntosh, Baron McIntosh of Haringey is a British Labour politician. McIntosh was educated at Haberdasher Aske's Hampstead School, the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, Jesus College, Oxford and Ohio State University. He was married to the late Prof Naomi Sargant and father of two sons Francis Robert and Philip Henry Sargant McIntosh also stepfather to David Andrew Kelly. He served as a councillor in the London Borough of Haringey 1964-68.

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  • Andrew Robert McIntosh, Baron McIntosh of Haringey is a British Labour politician. McIntosh was educated at Haberdasher Aske's Hampstead School, the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, Jesus College, Oxford and Ohio State University. He was married to the late Prof Naomi Sargant and father of two sons Francis Robert and Philip Henry Sargant McIntosh also stepfather to David Andrew Kelly. He served as a councillor in the London Borough of Haringey 1964-68. He represented Tottenham on the Greater London Council 1973-83. When Labour won control of the GLC in 1981, McIntosh was leader of the Labour group. On the right of the Party then, McIntosh had only narrowly beaten left-winger Ken Livingstone for the leadership. However, the day after Labour won a small majority, McIntosh was ousted and Livingstone voted leader of the Labour Group and of the GLC in his place by 30 to 20. McIntosh was raised to the peerage as a life peer on 17 January 1983 as Baron McIntosh of Haringey, of Haringey in the County of Greater London. He has served as a whip and a culture spokesman in the House of Lords. Andrew McIntosh was the UK's Minister for the Media and Heritage at the Department for Culture Media and Sport from 2003 to 2005. His responsibilities included broadcasting and press regulation, heritage and architecture, libraries, and gambling regulation. He was also spokesman in the House of Lords for HM Treasury from 1997-2005. Since 1 September 2005 he has been a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He is a member of the Assembly's Committee on Culture, Science and Education and chairman of its Sub-Committee on the Media. Following the passing of a resolution on "Threats to the lives and freedom of expression of journalists" on 27 January 2007 the Council of Europe appointed him its rapporteur on media freedom. He is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society and a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association.
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  • 1997—2003
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  • Andrew Robert McIntosh, Baron McIntosh of Haringey is a British Labour politician. McIntosh was educated at Haberdasher Aske's Hampstead School, the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, Jesus College, Oxford and Ohio State University. He was married to the late Prof Naomi Sargant and father of two sons Francis Robert and Philip Henry Sargant McIntosh also stepfather to David Andrew Kelly. He served as a councillor in the London Borough of Haringey 1964-68.
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  • Andrew McIntosh, Baron McIntosh of Haringey
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