Stephen McCabe is a Labour Party

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and leader of

Inverclyde Council Inverclyde Council is one of the 32 Local authorities of Scotland, local authorities of Scotland, covering the Inverclyde council area. In its current form the council was created in 1996, replacing the previous Inverclyde District Council which ...

. A graduate of the

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where he studied economics, he has been a councillor since

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, retaining his seat as the sole representative for 'Ward 6' in

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

. When larger, multi-member wards were created for the 2007 election, he stood successfully in Inverclyde East (covering

Kilmacolm Kilmacolm () is a village and Civil parishes in Scotland, civil parish in the Inverclyde council area, and the Counties of Scotland, historic county of Renfrewshire (historic), Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies on th ...

and eastern parts of

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) and was re-elected there in

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and

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. He was leader of the local authority between May 2007 and February 2011, when he stepped down for family reasons, but was soon re-elected to the position in August of the same year, following the death of local MP David Cairns which in turn led to McCabe's successor

Iain McKenzie Iain McKenzie (born 4 April 1959) is a Scottish Labour Party politician, who was formerly the Member of Parliament for Inverclyde. He was elected at the June 2011 by-election, and stood unsuccessfully for re-election in the 2015 general elec ...

being elected to Westminster in the 2011 Inverclyde by-election. McCabe was arrested on 4 November 2024, on suspicion of assault. On 15 November 2024 Mccabe was charged with assault and threatening and abusive behaviour.

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