Tony McNulty

Anthony James McNulty (born 3 November 1958, London) is a politician in the United Kingdom who is Labour member of Parliament for the London Borough of Harrow constituency of Harrow East, and was first elected in 1997. He holds B.A and M.A degrees from the University of Liverpool and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University respectively. Before becoming a MP he was leader of the Labour group on Harrow council and a senior lecturer at the University of North London. After a short period as a backbench MP he was appointed a government whip, was then promoted to Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; his next promotion saw him become Minister of State for transport. He was then moved sideways to become Minister of State at the Home Office, with responsibility for Immigration and Nationality, after the 2005 election.

As of May 2006 McNulty is a minister in the Home Office with responsibility over the police force, after being moved from his post of Immigration minister (BBC) It may well be hard for him to now be promoted from Minister of State level to cabinet rank following his torrid time in the Immigration post during which several national newspapers called for his resignation. Little known to the general public before this controversy he had nonetheless enjoyed a reputation as a party loyalist and 'safe pair of hands' which was underminded by the crisis.

McNulty is married to the chief executive of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Christine Gilbert, CBE. Gilbert will become Her Majesty's Chief Inspector (HMCI) at Ofsted from October 2006 His father is an Irish immigrant who moved to England, from Donegal in the Republic of Ireland, as a teenager.

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