Andrew Murray (campaigner and journalist)
| Andrew Murray | |
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| Chief of staff of Unite the Union | |
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Assumed office 2011 |
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| Chair of the Stop the War Coalition | |
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In office 2001–2011 |
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| Succeeded by | Jeremy Corbyn |
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In office 2015–2016 |
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| Preceded by | Jeremy Corbyn |
| Succeeded by | Murad Qureshi |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Andrew Philip Drummond-Murray 3 July 1958 |
| Political party | Labour Party (2016–present) |
| Other political affiliations |
Communist Party of Great Britain (1976–1991) Communist Party of Britain (1995–2016) |
| Spouse(s) |
Susan Michie (1981–1997) Anna Kruthoffer (2003–present) |
| Relations |
Arthur Hope, 2nd Baron Rankeillour (maternal grandfather) |
| Parents |
Peter Drummond-Murray of Mastrick Hon. Barbara Mary Hope |
| Education | Worth School |
| Occupation | Trade union official |
| Profession | Journalist |
| Committees |
General Council of the Trades Union Congress (2011–present) Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Britain (2000–2004, 2008–2011) |
Andrew Philip Drummond-Murray, commonly known as Andrew Murray, (born 3 July 1958) is a British campaigner and journalist who was chair of the Stop the War Coalition from its formation in 2001 until September 2011, and again from September 2015 to 2016.
Murray has been a senior official for several trade unions over a couple of decades. After forty years in the Communist Party of Great Britain, and then the Communist Party of Britain, he joined the Labour Party towards the end of 2016. Murray was seconded from Unite to Labour headquarters for the 2017 general election.
Murray was born in 1958 to Peter Drummond-Murray of Mastrick, a stockbroker and banker who was Slains Pursuivant from 1981 to 2009, and Hon. Barbara Mary Hope, daughter of former Conservative MP Arthur Hope, 2nd Baron Rankeillour who was governor of the Madras Presidency of British India from 1940 to 1946. He was educated at Worth School, a Benedictine independent boarding school in Sussex.
A former Morning Star journalist, a publication to which he still contributes, Murray was appointed as a parliamentary lobby correspondent at the age of 19. From 1986 to 1987, he worked for the Soviet Novosti news agency. Later he became an official for the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF).
At the Transport and General Workers Union, an organisation for which Murray worked from 1987 to 1998 and again from 2003, he was heavily involved in the conduct of the British Airways cabin crew strike of 1997, and in the successful general secretary election campaigns of Bill Morris (1991 and 1995) and Tony Woodley (2003) and, after the formation of Unite as a merger of the T&G and Amicus, of Len McCluskey in 2010.
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