Iain McNicol

Iain McNicol    (Political organiser, trade unionist)
Born	17 August 1969
Alma mater	Dundee Institute of Technology
Party	Labour
General Secretary of the Labour Party  In office 19 July 2011 - Present

Iain McNicol (born 17 August 1969) is a British Labour politician and trade unionist.

On 19 July 2011, Labour’s National Executive Committee appointed McNicol as General Secretary of the Labour Party.

Legal action

On 11 July 2016, Martin Howe QC emailed a letter to Iain McNicol stating that legal action will be taken if Jeremy Corbyn is left off the leadership ballot triggered by the challenge of Angela Eagle. Holding McNicol personally liable, Martin Howe wrote:

"We understand that you are considering holding tomorrow's vote in secret. There is no ground for subverting the democratic procedures of a political party in such a way or the principles of the Labour Party. Secret votes have no place in the robust and open free speech of a National Executive Committee."

On 12 July 2016, the BBC reported that the NEC had ruled Corbyn will be automatically included on the ballot in Labour's leadership contest. But the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said it was highly likely that the Labour Party itself would challenge the decision in the courts.

Abject apology

On 10 February 2017, McNicol was invited by Patrick Haseldine, Labour candidate at the 2017 Frinton by-election, to offer a fulsome and unreserved apology for having suspended him from the Labour Party without any justification whatsoever.

Figures

On 7 July 2016, Iain McNicol tweeted:

There has been a bit of speculation around @UKLabour membership so actual figures: 129,726 have joined since EU Referendum. Total now 515,000.

Hobbies

On Twitter Iain McNicol says he is a black belt in karate, plays the bagpipes and is still trying to change the world.

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:EHRC avoids response to QC’s submission that Labour investigation breaches Equality Act	Article	3 August 2019		Jewish Voice for Labour's submission to the Equality and Human Rights Commission points out that many of the worst aspects took place under the tenure of former general secretary Iain McNicol, while significant improvements have been made under his successor Jennie Formby.
Document:How top Labour officials plotted to bring down Jeremy Corbyn	Article	16 April 2020	Jonathan Cook	The stench of cover-up is already in the air. Keir Starmer's Labour needs to come clean and admit that its most senior officials defrauded hundreds of thousands of party members, and millions more supporters, who voted for a fairer, kinder Britain.
Document:Jeremy Corbyn’s Opponents Burned the House Down to Stop Him - Now Keir Starmer Is King of the Ashes	Article	25 July 2020	Daniel Finn	By sacking Rebecca Long-Bailey on a trumped-up pretext, Sir Keir Rodney Starmer has set the seal on a drastic shift to the right for the Labour Party. That shift comes just as the key arguments by Jeremy Corbyn’s opponents to justify a break with his left leadership have been falling apart in the face of overwhelming evidence.
Document:Labour & ‘anti-Semitism’: Real goal of establishment smear campaign is to deny socialists power	Article	23 April 2019	Ken Livingstone	After three years of screaming headlines, the truth about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party is finally revealed: just 0.08 percent of Labour’s half-a-million members have said or tweeted something anti-Semitic
Document:Labour Party exclusions: we need justice for the many not just for the few	Article	2 March 2018	David Rosenberg	The Labour Party's departing General Secretary Iain McNicol has done everything possible to delay or prevent the implementation of the Chakrabarti Inquiry Report which needs to be the central focus of our campaigning right now, if we are going to win justice for the many suspended and excluded by Labour, not just for the few.
Document:Labour councillor demands refund from party after leaked report exposed sabotage of Corbyn	Article	16 April 2020	Lamiat Sabin	Sarah-Jane McDonough's demand for a refund came after Unite General Secretary Len McCluskey claimed that attempts by the "Senior Management Team" to sabotage Labour’s chances in the UK/2017 General Election could have broken electoral law.
Document:Labour ‘gagging orders’ put in place by McNicol – and gave hundreds of £1000s to allies	Article	16 July 2019		Shadow Cabinet learns ‘non-disclosure agreements’ on disaffected ex-staff appearing on Panorama and talking to media were authorised by former General Secretary Iain McNicol – and enriched staff (considered to be his anti-Corbyn allies) by hundreds of thousands of pounds
Document:Labour’s witch-hunt against Ken Livingstone	article	31 March 2017	Jonathan Cook	Labour's kangaroo court trying to justify suspending Ken Livingstone for stating the fact that Hitler supported Zionism
Document:Spiteful misogynistic bullying of Diane Abbott and left-wing staff laid out in internal party report	Article	13 April 2020	Lamiat Sabin	Labour General Secretary Iain McNicol, Executive Director for Elections Patrick Heneghan, and Mr McNicol’s office manager Tracey Allen mocked Diane Abbott and insinuated that she had faked illness towards the end of the 2017 General Election campaign.
Document:Starmer’s Mortal Wound On The Soul Of The Labour Party	blog post	30 October 2020	Rachael Swindon	Starmer clearly believes he has now firmly established his own political identity and laid the foundations for the transformation of Labour’s electoral prospects – in the mould of Kinnock and Blair. It may be that he has simply destroyed his reputation for moral and intellectual integrity – and inflicted a mortal wound on the soul of his party.
Document:This largely pointless EHRC investigation has been welcomed by Labour	Article	28 May 2019	John Spannyard Indaworks	"The upside of all this is that it may well lay to rest the continual Zionist refrain that Labour and Corbyn are an anti-Semitic party. What it is unlikely to do in my view is derail the Corbyn McDonnell project - it's just a bump in that particular road."
Document:UK Labour party teeters on brink of civil war over antisemitism	Article	27 July 2020	Jonathan Cook	Labour Party member Mark Howell is suing former General Secretary Iain McNicol for “breach of contract” and is demanding that those named in the leaked report be expelled from the party (see "Mark Howell for Justice": https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/mark-howell-for-justice/).
File:Labour internal antisemitism report.pdf	report	March 2020	Labour Party	An enormous (851 pages) report of an internal UK Labour Party investigation into alleged antisemitism in the Party between 2014 and 2019.

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