Oliver Clark

Views are mine! | Work in external affairs for the travel industry ✈️ | History obsessed | School Governor | @LGBTCons General Council Exec Member |

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

Today in 1940, as British forces are withdrawn from France, Churchill defiantly vows to continue the war. "We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets. We shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender"

[Oliver Clark @OliverSWClark]

An action shot of me presenting and being all serious 💁‍♂️🤣

[LGBT+ Conservatives @LGBTCons]

🚨 COMING SOON: THE LGBT+ CONSERVATIVES LOCAL GOVERNMENT CANDIDATES FUND 🚨

We are proud to announce that we are preparing to launch the LGBT+ Conservatives Local Government Candidates Fund, which will go live in Autumn and will support candidates in the 2027 local elections.

[Patrick Maguire @patrickkmaguire]

This decade's Liam Byrne note

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Labour's Welfare Secretary admitted to Peter Mandelson what he won’t tell you.

Labour raised your taxes to pay for more benefits.

[Kevin Hollinrake MP @kevinhollinrake]

Well, Zia, I definitely consider myself unemployable, but you tend to be when you’ve built businesses from scratch and sold them - including one with 220 offices around the country employing 1000 people.

Here are some of the many others with interesting, relevant real-world backgrounds:

Business

Andrew Griffith (Arundel and South Downs): Was chief operating officer and chief financial officer of Sky, the youngest finance director in the FTSE 100 at the time, selling shares worth around £17 million when Comcast bought the company.

Kemi Badenoch (North West Essex): Worked at McDonald’s at 16 after arriving from Nigeria with £100, then trained as a software engineer before moving into banking at Coutts, The Spectator and on to lead the party.

James Cartlidge (South Suffolk): Founded the shared ownership property portal Share to Buy and is now Shadow Defence Secretary.

Mel Stride (Central Devon): Founded Venture Marketing Group in 1987, a trade exhibitions, conferences and publishing company - is now Shadow Chancellor.

Chris Philp (Croydon South): Started at McKinsey before becoming a serial entrepreneur, founding wholesale distributor Blueheath and co-founding the property finance firm Pluto Capital.

Jeremy Hunt (Godalming and Ash): Co-founded the educational publisher Hotcourses after teaching English in Japan, selling it for a reported £14 million in 2017.

Military

Tom Tugendhat (Tonbridge and Malling): Served as an intelligence officer across Iraq and Afghanistan, earned an MBE and helped set up the National Security Council of Afghanistan.

Lincoln Jopp (Spelthorne): A Scots Guards Colonel awarded the Military Cross after being shot and wounded saving lives during a coup in Sierra Leone, who later became a pensions business COO.

Medicine

Neil Shastri-Hurst (Solihull West and Shirley): Was a surgeon and a Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps before retraining as a healthcare barrister, spanning medicine, military and law.

Caroline Johnson (Sleaford and North Hykeham): A consultant paediatrician who has continued doing NHS shifts alongside her work as Shadow Health Minister.

Luke Evans (Hinckley and Bosworth): A former GP.

Kieran Mullan (Bexhill and Battle): A medical doctor who grew up in social housing and is now Shadow Justice Minister.

Ben Spencer (Runnymede and Weybridge): Trained as a psychiatrist before politics and now serves as Shadow Science, Innovation and Technology Minister.

The list goes on.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Britain is suffering from a collapse of consequences.

If we’re going to fix it, we need to get tough.

[Conservative Councillors' Association @CCACllrs]

Congratulations to Cllr Aled Richards-Jones on becoming the new Leader of the Council.

The Conservative Group have tonight taken control of the London Borough of Wandsworth.

[Oliver Clark @OliverSWClark]

This is absolutely abhorrent behaviour. Doing this to someone on the street, regardless of whether they are famous or not, is intimidating and thuggish. The government and London’s less than useful mayor need to start tackling this type of behaviour, instead of just empty words!

[Campaign Against Antisemitism @antisemitism]

Dame Helen Mirren gets called an “evil Zionist b****” by a pro-Palestine thug in the streets of London.

This is absolutely appalling.

We are now at a point where public figures can be screamed at and abused simply for being perceived as being sympathetic to the world’s only Jewish state or unwilling to conform to an ideological litmus test.

This is not activism. It is intimidation, mob behaviour and extremism masquerading as moral virtue.

[Oliver Clark @OliverSWClark]

Fab time hosting the @LGBTCons drinks last night and supporting gay venues in Soho

[LGBT+ Conservatives @LGBTCons]

Another fantastic @LGBTCons social in London! Thank you everyone for coming!

[Wandsworth Conservatives @wandsworth]

The @Conservatives have tonight formed an administration on @Wandsworth Council. We look forward to getting to work for residents and delivering real results. 🌳

[Oliver Clark @OliverSWClark]

Another fab @LGBTCons event coming up with the fab Richard Holden MP and Shadow Cabinet member! Grab your ticket and come along 💙 #ToriesHostTheBestEvents

[LGBT+ Conservatives @LGBTCons]

We are very excited for our Summer Drinks reception on the 30th June with the marvellous @RicHolden as our guest! Grab a ticket while you can from our website! 💙🇬🇧💙🏳️‍🌈

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Starmer, Burnham, Farage, Polanski…These men have one thing in common. They all want nationalisation.

That will mean companies run by politicians but paid for with YOUR money.

There’s only one party that stands against their failed ideas and that’s the Conservatives.

[Oliver Clark @OliverSWClark]

Back out campaigning with @TootingCons yesterday delivering thank you notes for electing hard working @Conservatives Cllrs. I may have burnt in the sun 😂 🌞

[Oliver Clark @OliverSWClark]

Looking forward to hosting the @LGBTCons social on Wednesday. Forecasted to be a lovely 22 degrees 😎 🌞. Message me for details and come say hi 👋

[Cllr Jamie Mulhall @Mullers1993]

Don't forget it's the @LGBTCons social in London this Wednesday hosted by the marvellous @OliverSWClark DM Oli or myself for details 🍻🍻🍻

[City Hall Conservatives @CityHallTories]

The Mayor of London owns and controls so much land in London but will not develop it. But when called out by @NeilGarratt, all Sadiq Khan can do is get petty and insulting. Londoners rents and mortgages are rising whilst this Mayor sits on his hands.

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

This is why @KemiBadenoch is the most popular leader in Britain ⬇️

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Rachel Reeves is responsible for the single largest drop in employment since COVID.

Read that again.

Only @KemiBadenoch’s Conservatives can Get Britain Working Again.

[Matt Vickers MP @Matt_VickersMP]

🚨 Yet more devastating news for Britain’s economy.

Unemployment is UP.

19% more people are now without a job since Labour came to power.

More people without the security of a pay packet, able to provide for their families.

We’re all paying the price for Labour’s failure.

[Oliver Clark @OliverSWClark]

@aled_rj and the @wandsworth Conservatives already getting to work and clearing up the mess ✅

[Wandsworth Council @wandbc]

The new Leader-elect of Wandsworth Council, Councillor Aled Richards-Jones, sets out the immediate priorities of the incoming administration.

Find out more: https://t.co/udf7gR0OdH