Oliver Cooper (politician)

Oliver Cooper (born 1987)[1] is an English Conservative politician. He is the Leader of the party on Camden London Borough Council representing Hampstead Town.

Oliver Cooper
Leader of the Opposition on Camden Council
In office
2018 – Present
Preceded byGio Spinella
Camden councillor for Hampstead Town
In office
2015 – Present
Preceded bySimon Marcus in a byelection
Personal details
Born1987 (age 32–33)
Political partyConservative
Alma materUniversity College London

Cooper was elected to represent Hampstead Town Ward on Camden Council in 2015. He became the Leader of the Opposition after the 2018 elections. He has appeared in the national news by highlighting some Labour members disrupting a minute's silence for Tessa Jowell,[2] securing an official rebuke of Sadiq Khan for allegedly misusing crime statistics in 2018,[3] attacking the Revolutionary Communist Group speaking in Camden Council,[4] intervening and stopping Islamophobic violence on the London Underground in September 2019[5] and helping get rid of antisemitic graffiti in his area in December 2019.[6][7][8][9][10]

He wrote in The Telegraph in 2015 unsuccessfully asking Tories not to vote for Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.[11] He was the deputy chairperson of the Hampstead and Kilburn Conservatives.[12] Before coming a councillor, he was criticised in The Guardian for using Taxpayers' Alliance data to criticise high pay in Camden Council.[13]

Cooper was the national chairman of the Tory youth organization Conservative Future from 2013 to 2014. The Times reported that the organization was "working really really well"[14] until he was a victim of Mark Clarke in the nationally-reported "Tatler Tory" bullying scandal.[15] Cooper stood down after Clarke threatened to spread false rumours about him if he stood for re-election leading to Clarke replacing him with Clarke's lover.[16][17] He had previously relaunched the European Young Conservatives.[18]

References
  1. Pitel, Laura. "How tougher times have bred a harder edged young generation". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  2. Yorke, Harry; Ryan, Verity (29 May 2018). "Labour members outraged as far-Left activists disrupt minute's silence to Tessa Jowell". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  3. Correspondent, Fiona Hamilton | Richard Ford, Home. "Sadiq Khan rebuked for misusing crime figures". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  4. Nellist, Tom (21 January 2019). "'Hateful' hard-left campaigners CONDEMNED for protesting council's antisemitism campaign". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  5. "Camden Tory leader intervenes in Islamophobic abuse". Metro. 1 September 2019. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  6. "'Shock and horror' as antisemitic graffiti daubed on London shops and synagogue". Sky News.
  7. Gibbons, Katie. "London synagogue and shops targeted in racist attack" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  8. Sheridan, Danielle (29 December 2019). "Police patrols increase at London synagogue in wake of New York stabbings after anti-Semitic graffiti daubed on shop fronts" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  9. Bowcott, Owen (29 December 2019). "London synagogue and shops targeted with antisemitic graffiti" – via www.theguardian.com.
  10. "Anti-Semitic graffiti daubed on shops and cafes". 29 December 2019 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  11. Cooper, Oliver (28 July 2015). "Tories, don't vote for Jeremy Corbyn. It won't end well" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  12. Booth, Robert; Halliday, Josh (10 April 2015). "Labour and Tory top brass told to stay away by constituencies" – via www.theguardian.com.
  13. Fearn, Hannah (7 August 2014). "Council staff are not overpaid – far from it" – via www.theguardian.com.
  14. Fisher, Billy Kenber and Lucy. "Youth leader stood down after drug dealing threat" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  15. Reporter, Billy Kenber, Investigations. "Tories ignored claims of bullying in youth wing for a year, leaked emails reveal" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  16. Fisher, Billy Kenber and Lucy. "How ego trip led the Tories into crisis" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  17. Fisher, Billy Kenber and Lucy. "Youth leader stood down after drug dealing threat" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  18. "BBC Three - Free Speech, Series 2 - Oliver Cooper". BBC.
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