Oliver Cooper (politician)
Oliver Cooper is an English Conservative politician. He is the Leader of the party on Camden London Borough Council representing Hampstead Town.
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, securing an official rebuke of Sadiq Khan for allegedly misusing crime statistics in 2018, attacking the Revolutionary Communist Group speaking in Camden Council, intervening and stopping Islamophobic violence on the London Underground in September 2019 and helping get rid of antisemitic graffiti in his area in December 2019.
He wrote in The Telegraph in 2015 unsuccessfully asking Tories not to vote for Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader. He was the deputy chairperson of the Hampstead and Kilburn Conservatives. Before coming a councillor, he was criticised in The Guardian for using Taxpayers' Alliance data to criticise high pay in Camden Council.
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" until he was a victim of Mark Clarke in the nationally-reported "Tatler Tory" bullying scandal. 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. He had previously relaunched the European Young Conservatives.
