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Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, McKinstry graduated from Cambridge University.
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He writes regularly for several newspapers in the United Kingdom, including the Daily Mail, Daily Express, and The Sunday Telegraph. He often writes about issues relating to immigration. His books include a biography of the Victorian Prime Minister, Lord Rosebery.
Losing his seat on Islington council in 1994, he was working for Labour front bencher Doug Henderson when he announced the following year, via an article in The Spectator, that he no longer supported the party.
Subsequently he was a regular columnist in both the Daily Mail and the Daily Express. McKinstry is married and lives in Kent and Provence.
2003 British Sports Book Awards (Best Biography), Jack & Bobby.
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Politics
In the early 1990s McKinstry was a 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".
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