Mackinlay underwent a quadruple amputation following an infection of sepsis in 2023. He stood down as an MP at the 2024 general election and was appointed to the House of Lords.
When the Anti-Federalist League evolved into the UK Independence Party (UKIP), Mackinlay was appointed its founding treasurer[14] and Vice-Chairman. He stood again in Gillingham at the 1997 general election, receiving 590 votes.[15]
In July 1997, Sked resigned as UKIP leader, nominating Mackinlay as his successor.[16] Mackinlay decided that the only way to keep the party going was to rework its constitution and hold a leadership election. Mackinlay stood in the election against Michael Holmes[17] and Gerald Roberts. Holmes, with the backing of Nigel Farage, easily won and appointed Mackinlay as his deputy.[16]
After the European Parliament election in 1999, Holmes dismissed Mackinlay and Party Secretary Tony Scholefield at a National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting, which prompted an immediate vote of no confidence in Holmes, who agreed to resign the following month. After extensive wrangling, Jeffrey Titford was elected as the new party leader; Mackinlay stepped down as deputy, but remained on its NEC.[16]
Mackinlay remained active in UKIP, standing in Totnes at the 2001 general election, at which he received 6.1% of the vote,[18] then back again in Gillingham in 2005, where he polled 2.6%.[15] He also stood unsuccessfully in the 1994, 1999 and 2004 European elections.[19]
Conservative Party
In July 2005, Mackinlay defected from UKIP to the Conservative Party.[6] He was elected as a Conservative councillor on Medway Council in 2007 and re-elected in May 2011 with an increased majority.[20][21]
In 2010, he fell out with Kent Police over Special Constable David Craggs, who was advised that there would be no conflict with him standing for election to Medway Council but, after being elected as a councillor, was informed that he could not hold both roles.[22] In May 2011, Mackinlay was appointed a member of Kent Police Authority.[23]
In October 2017, Mackinlay said "unemployed young people from Glasgow should get on their bikes and work with gorgeous EU women on farms in the south of England after Brexit." Labour MSP James Kelly responded that the comments were "abhorrent and offensive", while Jenny Gilruth MSP said that the comments were "sexist and patronising".[26]
In June 2018 it was reported that Mackinlay had been found to have twice breached parliament's rules due to a potential financial interest, according to a decision by its standards watchdog. The MP had used his position to press for the reopening of an airport from which his company had planned to run low-cost flights. Mackinlay responded that he no longer had plans for running flights from Manston Airport and that there "was no suggestion he benefited financially from raising the matter in the Commons."[27]
Following an interim report on the connections between colonialism and properties now in the care of the National Trust, including links with historic slavery, Mackinlay was among the signatories of a letter in November 2020 to The Telegraph from the "Common Sense Group" of Conservative Parliamentarians. The letter accused the National Trust of being "coloured by cultural Marxist dogma, colloquially known as the 'woke agenda'".[30]
Mackinlay initially planned to contest the new seat of East Thanet, which contained the majority of his former seat of South Thanet, at the 2024 general election,[33] but announced on 24 May 2024 that he would not do so, owing to his ongoing rehabilitation and recovery from a severe case of sepsis that required the amputation of his lower arms and legs.[34][35]
Electoral spending criminal investigation following the 2015 general election
In 2016–17, the 2015 general election party spending investigation revealed that the Conservative Party had spent many thousands of pounds centrally on campaign buses to transport activists, and hotel accommodation for the activists, who went to campaign in marginal constituencies, including South Thanet. The expenditure on the buses was declared by the Conservative Party on its national declaration of "Campaign Spending", but in some cases the hotel accommodation was not declared at all as election spending when it should have been. In addition, there was controversy about whether the expenditure, both on the buses and the accommodation, should have been declared on the declarations of expenditure for the constituency made by each candidate's election agent. Kent Police began an investigation into the spending returns of Mackinlay following the Channel 4 report.[citation needed]
In a court case on 1 June 2016, brought by Mackinlay and his election agent Nathan Gray,[36] District Judge Barron granted more time for investigation saying "In this case, the allegations are far-reaching and the consequences of a conviction would be of a local and national significance with the potential for election results being declared void."[37]
On 14 March 2017, it was reported that Mackinlay had been interviewed under caution by officers investigating the allegations.[38] The day after, Channel 4 News published leaked emails, alleging that Theresa May's Political Secretary Stephen Parkinson, and Chris Brannigan, Director of Government Relations at the Cabinet Office, also took a key role in Mackinlay's campaign.[39] On 18 April 2017, Kent police passed Mackinlay's file to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to be considered for prosecution.[40] The CPS decided on 2 June 2017 that it was in the public interest to authorise charges under the Representation of the People Act 1983 against three people: Mackinlay, his agent Nathan Gray, and a party activist, Marion Little.[41][42] Appearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 4 July 2017, the three pleaded not guilty and were released on unconditional bail pending an appearance at Southwark Crown Court on 1 August 2017.[43][44]
Later in August 2017, a trial date of 14 May 2018 was set for Mackinlay on charges relating to his 2015 general election expenses, alongside Little and Gray.[45] The trial eventually started on 15 October 2018.[46] Gray was acquitted in December 2018,[47] and Mackinlay was acquitted on 9 January 2019.[48] Little was convicted of two counts relating to falsifying election expenses and was given a nine-month suspended prison sentence and fined £5,000;[49] the court concluded that Mackinlay and Gray had signed documents falsified by Little "in good faith, not knowing what she had done".[50]
After standing down as an MP, Mackinlay was nominated for a life peerage in the 2024 Dissolution Honours.[54][55][56] Created Baron Mackinlay of Richborough, of Rochester in the County of Kent, on 23 August 2024,[57] he was introduced to the House of Lords on 17 October. He pledged to use his position to campaign for greater awareness of sepsis and to improve the quality of prosthetics offered to amputees.[58]
Personal life
Mackinlay married Katalin "Kati" Madi, a Hungarian pharmacist, in 2011. They have a daughter.[10][59]
In September 2023, Mackinlay developed a very rapidly progressing case of sepsis and was placed in an induced coma for 16 days. He underwent a quadruple amputation of his lower limbs on 1 December at St Thomas' Hospital in London. Mackinlay was fitted with prosthetic limbs and expressed a desire to be known as the first "bionic MP".[33][59] He received a rare standing ovation when he returned to the House of Commons on 22 May 2024.[60]
Notes
^The South Thanet constituency was renamed "East Thanet" at the 2024 general election, with moderate boundary changes[1][2][3]
^ abWalden, Celia (15 July 2005). "From UKIP to Tory". The Daily Telegraph. onetime deputy leader of the UK Independence Party, Craig Mackinlay, has left the party after 12 years to join the Tories
^Daniel, Mark (2005). Cranks and Gadflies: The Story of UKIP. Oxford: Timewell Press. p. 11. ISBN1-85-725209-8. he had no interest in politics until he observed at close quarters the effects of Britain's short lived and ill-fated membership of the EU's Exchange Rate Mechanism.
^Daniel, Mark (2005). Cranks and Gadflies: The Story of UKIP. Oxford: Timewell Press. p. 11. ISBN1-85-725209-8. He heard Sked on a BBC politics programme, telephoned and attended a meeting at the LSE. He too was dragooned into standing for the 1992 election.
^Daniel, Mark (2005). Cranks and Gadflies: The Story of UKIP. Oxford: Timewell Press. p. 47. ISBN1-85-725209-8. Craig Mackinlay, as the Party Treasurer...
^ abcDaniel, Mark (2005). Cranks and Gadflies: The Story of UKIP. Oxford: Timewell Press. pp. 48–51. ISBN1-85-725209-8. he resigned the party leadership, naming Craig Mackinlay as his successor... Holmes accepted the leadership and immediately appointed Mackinlay as his deputy
^"Medway councillor resigns over conflict of interest". BBC News. 28 August 2010. Retrieved 25 June 2012. Councillor Craig Mackinlay, who also represents the River Ward, said there were no regulations preventing special constables from serving on the council and said he knew of three who are serving MPs.
^"Results of the election". Kent Police Area Returning Officer. 16 November 2012. Archived from the original on 30 December 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
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