Everything about Philip Hollobone totally explained
Philip Thomas Hollobone (born
November 7,
1964) is a
British politician and is both a
Conservative Member of Parliament for the
Kettering constituency (since the
2005 general election) and a member of
Kettering Borough Council for the
Piper's Hill ward (since
3rd May 2007).
Early life
Hollobone was educated at
Dulwich College,
London and the
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford where he was awarded a
BA degree in 1987 in Modern History and Economics. In 1984, he worked as a voluntary
teacher in
Honduras. He worked as an
investment banker for thirteen years from 1987. He was in the
Territorial Army for eight years.
Parliamentary career
His elected political career began in the
London Borough of Bromley, where he served as a
councillor between 1990 and 1994, before unsuccessfully contesting
Lewisham East at the
1997 General Election where he was defeated by the sitting
Labour MP
Bridget Prentice by 12,127 votes. In 1999, he served a one-year term as Chairman of the
Bromley and Chislehurst Conservative Association.
He was later selected as the Conservative candidate for the marginal
Northamptonshire constituency of Kettering for the
2001 General Election, being narrowly defeated by incumbent Labour MP
Phil Sawford by just 665 votes. From this election onwards, Hollobone made Kettering his political base, securing election in 2003 onto Kettering Borough Council (first representing the rural ward of Buccleuch before representing the suburban ward of
Piper's Hill) as well as serving as Vice Chairman of the Kettering Conservative Constituency Association since 2002.
Hollobone secured election to the
House of Commons at the second attempt, during the
2005 General Election, where he ousted sitting Labour MP Phil Sawford from the Kettering constituency by 3,301 votes. He made his
maiden speech on
May 24,
2005.
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He has been a member of the
Transport Committee since
2006, and he's a rare example of an MP who doesn't employ an assistant, he's remarked that he prefers to carry out case work himself.
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Hollobone is a supporter of the
Better Off Out campaign.
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Personal life
He married Donna Cooksey in June 2001 at
St John's Church in
Cranford St John near Kettering. They live near
Barton Seagrave. They had a son in June 2004 and a daughter in 2006.
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