Tributes flood in for 'Champion' Rutherglen MP Tommy McAvoy who passed away

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Tributes have flooded in for former MP Tommy McAvoy labelled ‘Champion for Rutherglen’ who passed away at the age of 80.The news broke on Friday that the ex-labour representative of Rutherglen had passed.As the longest-standing Government whip in history, Tommy represented Rutherglen as MP from 1987 to 2005 before easily winning the new Rutherglen and Hamilton West seat in 2005.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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The Labour Party had nominated me, and then it had to pass through various bodies before being approved. So I was quite pleased to get through that, and that there were no objections!”“First and foremost, I owe a lot to the constituents who kept voting me in.

At the end of the day you work for them, and I really did my best to help people in Rutherglen, Cambuslang, Toryglen, King’s Park and each area that came under the