Benjamin David Bradley (born 11 December 1989) is a British Conservative Party politician who formerly served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mansfield, Nottinghamshire from 2017 to 2024.

[2] On 8 January 2018, during Prime Minister Theresa May's Cabinet reshuffle, Bradley was appointed as Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party for Youth.

After being elected to the House of Commons in June 2017, Bradley chose to resign from Ashfield Council whilst remaining as a Nottinghamshire county councillor.

On returning to the East Midlands, he worked in a variety of jobs including as a landscape gardener, bartender and a supermarket shelf stacker.

[23] He has been criticised by political rivals for not standing down as a county councillor following his election to Parliament on the grounds that he had missed key local votes while working in London.

At the 2024 general election, Bradley lost his seat in the House of Commons, losing out by 3,485 votes to the Labour candidate, Steve Yemm.

He cited his disappoinment at losing two elections – as the new East Midlands Mayor soon followed by polling for Mansfield's MP – and the need to provide for his family's future.

[36] As of October 2024, he was writing for Cavendish Consulting,[37][38] described as "a strategic adviser for devolution",[39][40] and confirmed he would not seek further re-election at County level.

[43] He made it onto a six-man shortlist for the position,[44] but missed out on the nomination which went to Rob Waltham following a selection event at Lincoln's Bishop Grosseteste University in December 2024.

[50] Shortly after his appointment as a Conservative Party Vice Chair in January 2018, Bradley attracted criticism for a 2012 blog post[51] in which he wrote of a "vast sea of unemployed wasters" who he suggested should have vasectomies in order to stop them having multiple children.

[53][54] In 2018 Bradley was further criticised by the Labour Party[55] for a 2011 blog post titled "Public sector workers: they don't know they're born!

After a local newspaper contacted Bradley to ask him about the false claims, he responded: "I admit the post about using an Indian call centre was untrue and I took it down.

[59][60] In February 2018, Bradley falsely accused Jeremy Corbyn on Twitter of having "sold British secrets to communist spies" during the 1980s.

Corbyn responded by instructing his solicitors to require Bradley to delete his tweet or face legal action on the grounds of libel.

This was in response to the journalist approaching Bradley for a comment on a series of Islamophobic posts made on a Conservative councillor's Facebook page.

[67] On 23 October 2020, Bradley said that free school meal vouchers for deprived children in his constituency effectively handed cash directly to crack dens and brothels.

[68] Deputy Labour Party leader Angela Rayner accused Bradley of the "stigmatisation of working class families", calling his comments "disgraceful" and "disgusting".

"[72] Following an interim report on the connections between colonialism and properties now in the care of the National Trust, including links with historic slavery, Bradley was among the signatories of a letter to The Telegraph from the "Common Sense Group" of Conservative Parliamentarians.