Colonel Sir Neil Gordon Thorne, OBE TD DL (born 8 August 1932) is a British Conservative Party politician.
[1][2][3] He contested the constituency of Ilford South six times from October 1974 to 1997, and was the Member of Parliament for the seat from 1979 to 1992, when he lost by 402 votes to Labour's Mike Gapes.
[5] Thorne is a member of the Steering Group Committee for the British Chinese Armed Forces Heritage project which started in 2015.
In 2018, Thorne attracted media criticism for his application for planning permission to relocate a statue of Emmeline Pankhurst.
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