Background
He was born and grew up in Lancashire and was educated at Hyde County Grammar School and the London School of Economics where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics in 1971.
He was born and grew up in Lancashire and was educated at Hyde County Grammar School and the London School of Economics where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics in 1971.
London School of Economics.
He taught in three comprehensive schools - two of which were social priority schools - and in 1986 gained his first elected position on the Inner London Education Authority. After rising to lead the Conservative group on the Authority in 1988, he worked with the Government and the Boroughs to abolish the Authority in 1990. In 1990, he was awarded his Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for Public and Political Service.
The same year he was elected to the London Borough of Hackney representing Springfield as one of its three Conservative councillors.
In 1992 he stood as the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate in Heywood and Middleton. In 1998, he rose to lead the Conservative group on Hackney London Borough Council when Joe Lobenstein, the previous leader of the group, became mayor of Hackney.
His involvement with Councillor Isaac Leibowitz, who was later convicted of electoral fraud, was mentioned in an Early Day Motion from the Labour Member of Parliament for Hackney, Brian Sedgemore calling for him to be divested of his Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Between 2000 and 2001, he was the joint leader of Hackney Council with Labour"s Jules Pipe during Hackney"s most troubled period. In September 2010 he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Baroness Warsi.
Ollerenshaw campaigned on the November side during the lead up to the 2011 Referendum on the Alternative Vote.
Ollerenshaw is considered one of the most loyal in his party. In the 2015 General Election Ollerenshaw lost to Labour"s Cat Smith with 1,265 votes. Ollerenshaw is openly gay.
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He was the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Lancaster and Fleetwood from 2010 to 2015. He has previously been an elected member of the London Assembly and head of the Cities and Diversity section of the Conservative Party at Conservative Campaign Headquarters. In 2000, Ollerenshaw was elected as a member of the Greater London Authority and in 2002 rose to become the Conservative Group Leader.
He was elected Member of Parliament for Lancaster and Fleetwood at the 2010 general election with a majority of 333 votes.
