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▲{{short description|Former Scottish Labour politician}}
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| image = Brian Donahoe 2012.jpg
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| caption = Donohoe in 2012
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| office = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] <br /> for [[Central Ayrshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Central Ayrshire]]<br />
| parliament =
| term_start = 9 April 1992
| term_end = 30 March 2015
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| predecessor = [[David Lambie]]
| successor = [[Philippa Whitford]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1948|09|10|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Kilmarnock]], [[Ayrshire]], [[Scotland]]
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| nationality = [[United Kingdom|British]]
| spouse = Christine
| party = [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
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'''Sir
==Early life==
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Born in [[Kilmarnock]] and educated at the [[Patna, Scotland|Patna]] and [[Loudoun]] Montgomery [[Primary education|Primary School]]s, and the [[Irvine Royal Academy]], Donohoe later attended the Kilmarnock Technical College, where he received a [[Higher National Certificate|national certificate]] in Engineering in 1972. He was an apprentice fitter and turner at the [[Ailsa Shipbuilding Company|Ailsa Shipyard]] in Troon from 1965, before becoming a [[technical drawing|draughtsman]] in 1969. In 1977, he spent a few months as an engineer at the [[Hunterston A nuclear power station|Hunterston nuclear power plant]], before joining [[Imperial Chemical Industries|ICI]] Organics Division as a draughtsman later in the year.▼
Born in [[Kilmarnock]], he was educated at [[Primary education|primary school]]s before attending [[Irvine Royal Academy]]. He later attended Kilmarnock Technical College, where he received a [[Higher National Certificate|national certificate]] in Engineering in 1972.
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In 1981, Donohoe became a district officer for the [[National Association of Local Government Officers]] (NALGO), where he remained until his election to [[Palace of Westminster|Westminster]].
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==Parliamentary career==
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Donohoe was elected to the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] at the [[1992 United Kingdom general election|1992 general election]] for the Cunninghame South constituency after the retirement of the previous [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] MP [[David Lambie]]. Donohoe held the seat with a majority of 10,680 votes, and continued as the MP until 2015, when he was defeated at the general election by [[Philippa Whitford]] of the [[Scottish National Party]] by 13,589 votes. He made his [[maiden speech]] in the House of Commons on 13 May 1992.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199293/cmhansrd/1992-05-13/Debate-5.html| title=Hansard| date=13 May 1992| publisher=House of Commons| accessdate=28 March 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803212517/https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199293/cmhansrd/1992-05-13/Debate-5.html| archive-date=3 August 2017| url-status=live}}</ref> In parliament he served as a member of the [[Department for Transport|Transport]] [[Select committee (United Kingdom)|Select committee]], in its various forms, from 1993 until 2005. He has been a member of the Administration Select Committee since the [[2005 United Kingdom general election|2005 general election]].
In November 2008, Donohoe was one of eighteen MPs who signed a Commons motion backing a Team GB football team at the [[2012 London Olympic Games]], saying football "should not be any different from other competing sports and our young talent should be allowed to show their skills on the world stage". The football governing bodies of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are all opposed to a Great Britain team, fearing it would stop them competing as individual nations in future tournaments.
In February 2013, Cooper voted against the second reading of the [[Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2013-02-05 |title=MP-by-MP: Gay marriage vote |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-21346694 |access-date=2024-05-02 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref> Subsequently, in May 2013 the MP voted against the bill’s third and final reading,<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Public Whip — Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill — Third Reading - 21 May 2013 at 18:59 |url=https://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2013-05-21&number=11&display=allpossible&sort=vote |access-date=2024-05-02 |website=www.publicwhip.org.uk}}</ref> opposing the legalisation of same-sex marriage within England and Wales.
Donohoe's seat of Cunninghame South was abolished, and between 2005 and 2015 he represented the redrawn seat of Ayrshire Central.
In the [[2015 United Kingdom general election]] Donohoe lost his [[Central Ayrshire]] seat to [[Philippa Whitford]] of the SNP by a margin of 13,589 votes. After his defeat, Donohoe said that he was "disappointed" to lose but that there was a silver lining: "I'm of an age where I can now turn round with the greatest delight and tell people to "fuck off!" which I
After the [[Chilcot Report]] investigating the [[Iraq War]] was released, Donohoe stated he was "not convinced" it gave any fresh insight into the controversial decision to invade Iraq. Donohoe had voted for the invasion, but a year later he said he would have voted against had he known Iraq did not have [[weapons of mass destruction]].<ref name=dr-20160715>{{cite news |url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/ex-mp-brian-donohoe-defends-8426848 |title=Ex-MP Brian Donohoe defends Tony Blair in wake of damning Chilcot Report |author=Ross Dunn |newspaper=Daily Record |date=15 July 2016 |accessdate=16 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160716122744/http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/ex-mp-brian-donohoe-defends-8426848 |archive-date=16 July 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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==Personal life==
He married Christine Pawson in 1973 and they have two sons. He takes a particular interest in renationalising the [[Rail transport in
==Footnotes==
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==External links==
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* [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,9290,-1434,00.html Guardian Unlimited Politics – Ask Aristotle: Brian Donohoe MP]
* [https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/brian_h_donohoe/ayrshire_central TheyWorkForYou.com – Brian Donohoe MP]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/representatives/profiles/25698.stm Profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121027125116/http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/representatives/profiles/25698.stm |date=27 October 2012 }} at ''[[BBC News]]'' Democracy Live
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