Early Life
He was born in Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire, to the late Labour MP for Dunbartonshire East, Hugh McCartney, and his wife, Margaret, a trade unionist. Ian McCartney has two sisters, Irene and Margaret.
Educated at Lenzie Academy, he left the school at the age of 15 "under a bit of a cloud" without any qualifications or school prizes. He led a paper-boys' strike at the age of fifteen, and had a number of jobs after leaving school, including a seaman, a local government manual worker, and a kitchen worker. He was a councillor for the Abram ward (Metropolitan Borough of Wigan) from 1982 to 1987.
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