Philip Thomas Hollobone (born 7 November 1964) is a former British Conservative Party politician and former investment banker.

[6][7] In 1984, he was placed by Project Trust as a volunteer teaching assistant with a Baptist Mission in Bay Islands, Honduras[8] initially at Punta Gorda on Roatán and later a school on Guanaja.

[5] He worked for various companies as an industry research analyst examining the performance of water, gas and electricity companies across the UK and investment banker between 1987 and 2003 [9][10] and was in the Territorial Army between 1987 and 1995,[5] latterly as a paratrooper [8] His elected political career began in the London Borough of Bromley, where he served as a councillor for the Martins Hill & Town ward between 1990 and 1994, when he did not stand again and the Liberal Democrat candidate won his former seat.

He unsuccessfully contested Lewisham East at the 1997 General Election where he was defeated by the sitting Labour MP Bridget Prentice by 12,127 votes.

[11][12] He was later selected as the Conservative candidate for the marginal Northamptonshire constituency of Kettering for the 2001 general election; he lost to incumbent Labour MP Phil Sawford by 665 votes.

In March 2015, Hollobone was criticised by The Independent for being one of 4 MPs who voted against a Bill to increase the powers of the House of Lords to penalise peers who had broken the law and expel the worst offenders.

[18] In February 2018, following the announcement that Northamptonshire County Council had brought in a "section 114" notice, putting it in special measures following a crises in its finances, Hollobone was one of seven local MPs who released a statement arguing that the problems with the authority were down to mismanagement from the Conservative councillors who led it rather than funding cuts from the Conservative Government.

[19] In March 2018, he joined three other Conservative backbench MPs in "talking out" a bill by Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, which aimed to reverse private sector involvement in the NHS.

[25] In November 2017, Hollobone was reported to be the MP who had benefited from the largest sum of expenses that he was not entitled to, but had not been forced to pay the money back.

[27] Some 42 policies were listed including reintroduction of the death penalty, banning the burka in public places and preparation to leave the European Union, scrapping wind farm subsidies, and renaming the late August Bank Holiday as "Margaret Thatcher Day".

[32][33] He went on to say that he would refuse to speak with constituents wearing burkas if they came to see him, although he did not cite any examples of where this had happened in the past and he was told by the advocacy group Liberty that he could face legal action if he was to do so.