Philip Thomas Hollobone (born 7 November 1964) is a British
Conservative Party
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politician
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and former investment banker. He has been the
Member of Parliament
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for
Kettering
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since the
2005 general election.
Early life
Hollobone was born on 7 November 1964 in
Bromley
Bromley is a large town in Greater London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley. It is south-east of Charing Cross, and had an estimated population of 87,889 as of 2011.
Originally part of Kent, Bromley became a market town, char ...
,
Kent
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. He was privately educated at
Dulwich College
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, where he was a contemporary of former UKIP leader
Nigel Farage
Nigel Paul Farage (; born 3 April 1964) is a British broadcaster and former politician who was List of UK Independence Party leaders, Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2009 and 2010 to 2016 and Brexit Party#Leaders, Lea ...
. He went on to study at
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
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where he was awarded a
BA degree in Modern History and Economics.
[ He was a member of the Oxford University branch of the ]Conservative Monday Club
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– a 'hard right' pressure group that was later disassociated from the Conservative Party over its policies, such as the voluntary repatriation of ethnic minorities.
In 1984, he worked as a voluntary teacher
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in Honduras
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with a Baptist mission.[ He worked for various companies as an industry research analyst and investment banker between 1987 and 2003 and was in the Territorial Army between 1987 and 1995.][
]
Political career
His elected political career began in the London Borough of Bromley
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, where he served as a councillor
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for the Martins Hill & Town ward between 1990 and 1994, when he did not stand again and the Liberal Democrat candidate won his former seat. He unsuccessfully contested Lewisham East
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at the 1997 General Election where he was defeated by the sitting Labour
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MP Bridget Prentice
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by 12,127 votes. In 1998 he sought re-election to the London Borough of Bromley
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in his former ward, but was defeated by the Liberal Democrats.[London Borough of Bromley]
He was later selected as the Conservative candidate for the marginal Northamptonshire
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two unitary authorities: North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire. It is ...
constituency of Kettering
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for the 2001 general election; he lost to incumbent Labour MP Phil Sawford
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Early life ...
by 665 votes. Following his defeat, Hollobone moved to Kettering and secured election in 2003 to Kettering Borough Council
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—first representing the rural ward of Buccleuch, before representing the suburban ward of Piper's Hill
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from 2007. He also became Vice Chairman of the Kettering Conservative Constituency Association in 2002. He was re-elected as a councillor in 2011, but did not re-stand in 2015.[
Hollobone secured election to the ]House of Commons
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at his third attempt, during the 2005 general election, defeating Phil Sawford by 3,301 votes. He made his maiden speech
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on 24 May 2005.
Some of his subsequent speeches were not well received. In 2006, he was one of three new MPs specifically mentioned in an article in ''The Times
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'' about manipulating the performance figures for the Theyworkforyou
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website. The article claimed new MPs boosted "their ratings on the internet by saying very little, very often".[ Whilst Hollobone's frequent "speeches" might give the appearance of "Churchill or Gladstone", many were interventions of only two or three sentences.][ In response, Hollobone said that as a new MP he tried to speak as often as possible on behalf of constituents and take part in many different debates.][
Hollobone was rated as the Conservatives' most rebellious MP in 2010. He stated that his job is to "represent constituents in Westminster, it's not to represent Westminster in the constituency".
He has attempted to reintroduce ]national service
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The l ...
. His private member's bill
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on capital punishment received its first reading in the House of Commons on 24 June 2013, but was withdrawn, and so did not receive a second reading. Similarly, his Young Offenders (Parental Responsibility) Bill, Foreign National Offenders (Exclusion from the United Kingdom) Bill, Fishing Grounds and Territorial Waters (Repatriation) Bill, Asylum Seekers (Return to Nearest Safe Country) Bill, BBC Licence Fee (Civil Debt) Bill and Equality and Diversity (Reform) Bill, all due for second reading on 28 February 2014, were all withdrawn. His European Communities Act 1972 (Repeal) Bill failed to progress to a vote.
He was re-elected at the 2010 general election, 2015 general election and 2017 general election.
In March 2015, Hollobone was criticised by ''The Independent
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'' for being one of 4 MPs who voted against a Bill to increase the powers of the House of Lords to penalise peers who had broken the law and expel the worst offenders. This followed an expenses scandal relating to the former peer Lord Hanningfield
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. Hollobone argued the act could be used to discriminate against older male peers.
In February 2018, following the announcement that Northamptonshire County Council had brought in a "section 114" notice, putting it in special measures following a crises in its finances, Hollobone was one of seven local MPs who released a statement arguing that the problems with the authority were down to mismanagement from the Conservative councillors who led it rather than funding cuts from the Conservative Government. They further argued that government commissioners should take over the running of the council.
In March 2018, he joined three other Conservative backbench MPs in "talking out" a bill by Green Party
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Greens believe that these issues are inherently related to one another as a foundation ...
MP Caroline Lucas
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, which aimed to reverse private sector involvement in the NHS. By filibustering
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for three-and-a-half hours, Lucas was left with just 17 minutes to present her bill, which was subsequently shelved without a vote.[NHS Reinstatement Bill: Tory MPs filibuster debate by talking about deporting foreigners for hours](_blank)
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In Parliament he serves on the Panel of Chairs, for which he receives an annual payment of £15,000 (in addition to his MP's salary of £77,379). He has previously been a member of the Transport Committee and the Backbench Business Committee.
Political views
Hollobone is regarded as being on the right wing of the Conservative Party, and is a member of the socially conservative
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Cornerstone Group
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. He has advocated the privatisation of the BBC and policies such as bringing back capital punishment and military conscription.
In 2013, Hollobone was one of four MPs who camped outside Parliament in a move to facilitate parliamentary debate on what they called an "Alternative Queen’s Speech" – an attempt to show what a future Conservative government might deliver.[ Some 42 policies were listed including reintroduction of the ]death penalty
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and conscription
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