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The Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, and Nick Hulme, of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, will be the guest speakers at a lunch hosted by Ipswich Suffolk Business Club on Friday 8th March. The event for members and their guests is supported by Milsoms Kesgrave Hall, Greene King, and Genesis PR.
This is an exclusive chance to hear from The Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP, who is a key player in the Prime Minister’s Cabinet and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, together with Nick Hulme, who is leading innovative work as Chief Executive of the East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.
Matt Hancock was appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in July 2018 and has been the MP for West Suffolk since the 2010 general election. He entered Government in September 2012 and served in several ministerial roles under David Cameron, including as Minister for Skills, Minister for Business, and Paymaster General. Under Prime Minister Theresa May, Matt was appointed Minister for Digital & Culture in 2016 and then reappointed Minister for Digital in 2017 and then Culture Secretary in the Department of Digital, Culture Media & Sport in January 2018.
Nick Hulme has worked in the NHS and social care for more than 35 years. Nick was appointed Chief Executive at The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust in January 2013 and in May 2016 also became Chief Executive of Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust. Following successful joint working, the two trusts merged on the 1 July 2018 to form East
Luke Morris, chair of the Ipswich Suffolk Business Club, said: “It is a great privilege that both the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and the Chief Exec of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust will be joining our next business lunch as guest speakers. This will be another excellent and timely event for the club in the context of Brexit and we very much look forward to welcoming members and their guests on the 8th March.”
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David Cameron broke his month-long silence over the Greensill lobbying scandal with a 1,700 word statement on Sunday night (Alamy)
David Cameron finally broke his silence on his role in the Greensill lobbying scandal but critics say “serious questions remain unanswered” over his actions and those still in government.
The former Prime Minister put out a lengthy statement on Sunday night where he accepted he should have communicated with ministers "through only the most formal of channels”, and having "reflected on this at length" he accepts there are "important lessons to be learnt”.
Having been cleared by the lobbying watchdog last month, Cameron is attempting to draw a line under the saga after damaging allegations in The Sunday Times and the Financial Times in recent weeks.
But Labour want him to return to Parliament to face MPs after it was reported he took the financier – his then employer – Lex Greensill to a “private drink” with health secretary Matt Hancock to discuss using his supply chain finance system in the NHS.
Earlier last week, the Treasury confirmed the ex-PM contacted the Chancellor Rishi Sunak on his private phone pushing for Greensill Capital to be involved in a coronavirus loan scheme, as well as two other ministers in the same department.
The matter was initially referred to the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists, but it concluded his activities had not fallen within the criteria that required registration, believed to be because Cameron was listed as an employee of the firm – which has since collapsed – and was therefore exempt.
However, a number of other investigations could still take place into his actions, with the powerful Committee on Standards in Public Life indicating it will consider submissions to look into such lobbying - though it does not have the remit to investigate individuals.
Lord Pickles, a Cabinet minister in Cameron’s government who is now chairman of the advisory committee on business appointments, told them it is something they should look at.
Giving evidence to the committee on its review on the rules which govern public life, he said: “I think there should be a review of lobbying and this [the allegation against Cameron] is something that maybe we need to take into consideration.
“Prime ministers and ex-prime ministers are powerful people. It’s important that the system is resistant to powerful people.”
Within Parliament itself, Cameron may face questions by the business select committee, which is drawing up plans for an inquiry into Liberty, Britain’s third largest steel producer, whose largest financial backer was Greensill, and is now facing its own crisis.
But this could be blocked by Tory MPs on the committee, something which has already happened at the Treasury select committee, who turned down calls for an official inquiry into Greensill’s collapse and Cameron’s lobbying efforts.
That decision was made before many of the most dramatic revelations about the former PM’s actions were made public though, and they may now decide to look again.
Sir Tom Scholar, the permanent secretary at the Treasury who was involved in discussions about Greensill’s access to coronavirus funding, will definitely be facing MPs on the issue, as he is due to appear before the Public Accounts Committee on April 22.
The row centres on the company's application to the Bank of England’s Covid corporate financing facility, which was initially rejected, leading to repeated lobbying by Cameron and others to look again.
The decision was not overturned, but the firm was later accredited to another pandemic fund, the coronavirus large business interruption loan scheme.
This gave it the ability to access government-backed loans of up to £50million, a decision the National Audit Office is now considering whether to investigate.
There are also questions over the number of messages Cameron sent to Sunak and their content, after the Treasury chose to publish only the Chancellor’s replies, but not the texts sent to him.
In response to an FOI last week it said he had “an expectation of confidence” as Cameron was speaking as an employee of Greensill.
But after Cameron’s statement acknowledged he had been using his role as the former PM to try and influence those in government, it now seems unlikely they can continue to use this exemption to not disclose them.
There is also pressure on Sunak to give a fuller explanation of what actions he took in response to the lobbying, after one of his messages said: “I have pushed the team to explore an alternative”.
Sunak wrote there were “no guarantees, but the Bank are currently looking at it and Charles should be in touch”, referring to Charles Roxburgh, the second most senior civil servant at the Treasury.
Similarly after it was confirmed he also “reached out informally by telephone” to Jesse Norman, the financial secretary, and John Glen, the economic secretary, there are calls for them to disclose their roles in the saga.
Hancock is also under mounting pressure to explain his meeting with Greensill, which was not recorded in the government transparency logs, and for which there are no minutes.
NHS Shared Business Services later announced a pilot scheme with Earnd, a company owned by Greensill Capital, to pay health workers weekly or daily.
For Cameron himself there are a number of unanswered questions despite his attempt at transparency through his 1,700 word statement to the Press Association, breaking nearly a month-long silence.
Not least whether when he said in 2010 in the wake of the expenses scandal that lobbying was the “next big scandal waiting to happen” that he would be involved in it.
He gave a speech about the “the far-too-cosy relationship between government, business and money”.
“We all know how it works.The lunches, the hospitality, the quiet word in your ear, the ex-ministers and ex-advisers for hire, helping big business find the right way to get its way. In this party, we believe in competition, not cronyism," he said.
Before entering Number 10 he said “sunlight is the best disinfectant”, but it remains to be seen if the current Prime Minister wants to pursue the matter.
Sources have suggested Boris Johnson is not minded to overhaul the current rules on lobbying, but it will be likely another week before the current Prime Minister can be questioned on the matter due to the suspension of political activity ahead of the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral on Saturday.
The period of national mourning gives those in government some breathing space before any further inquiries can take place, but the matter is unlikely to go away anytime soon.
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Theresa May's former chief of staff has entered the race to replace former health secretary Matt Hancock at the next election.
Nick Timothy was picked as the Conservative candidate for the West Suffolk constituency on Sunday evening.
Politics Hub: Number of Tories stepping down at 26-year high
Local Tory councillor Lance Stanbury said he "understands all the issues" and "will make a great candidate".
Mr Hancock will be standing down at the next general election after more than a decade as an MP.
He was first elected in 2010 under David Cameron's leadership of the party and has been re-elected twice, most recently with a 23,000 majority in 2019.
But he has been sitting as an independent since November following his decision to appear on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here.
His commitment to the ITV series saw him have the Tory whip removed, and he later announced he would stand down from parliament.
Mr Hancock, who quit as health secretary after he was found to have broken lockdown rules during the pandemic while having an affair with an aide, congratulated Mr Timothy on his selection.
"Best wishes for his campaign, he'll make a terrific member of parliament," he posted on X (Twitter).
Timothy's mixed record in politics
Mr Timothy was born in Birmingham but is believed to have strong family ties to West Suffolk.
He was a key adviser to Mrs May during her first year as prime minister, but quit after her decision to call a snap general election in 2017 spectacularly backfired.
The Tories saw their majority in parliament wiped out as then Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn exceeded expectations.
It marked the beginning of the end for Mrs May's premiership, as she failed to get her Brexit deal through a deeply divided parliament and was forced to resign in 2019.
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Mr Timothy, a Brexiteer, was previously a special adviser to Mrs May during her time as home secretary.
He was ousted from that role amid tensions between his boss and then prime minister Mr Cameron.
He was later barred from the Tories' candidates list for the 2015 general election.
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U.K. health secretary resigns and apologizes for violating social distancing rules with an aide with whom he was allegedly having an affair.
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U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who has led the country’s response to the coronavirus, resigned Saturday, a day after apologizing for breaching social distancing rules with an aide with whom he was allegedly having an affair.
Hancock had been under growing pressure since the tabloid Sun newspaper published images showing him and senior aide Gina Coladangelo kissing in an office at the Department of Health. The Sun said the closed-circuit television images were taken May 6 — 11 days before lockdown rules were eased to allow hugs and other physical contact with people outside one’s own household.
In a resignation letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Hancock said the government owed it “to people who have sacrificed so much in this pandemic to be honest when we have let them down.”
“And those of us who make these rules have got to stick by them and that’s why I’ve got to resign,” he wrote.
Johnson said he was sorry to receive Hancock’s resignation and that he “should leave office very proud of what you have achieved — not just in tackling the pandemic, but even before COVID-19 struck us.”
Johnson had earlier expressed confidence in Hancock despite widespread calls to fire him.
Jonathan Ashworth, health spokesman for the opposition Labor Party, said “it is right that Matt Hancock has resigned. But why didn’t Boris Johnson have the guts to sack him and why did he say the matter was closed?”
Some lawmakers from the governing Conservatives had also called on Hancock to quit because he wasn’t practicing what he has been preaching during the pandemic.
“The last thing I would want is for my private life to distract attention from the single-minded focus that is leading us out of this crisis,” Hancock, who is married, said in his letter of resignation.
“I want to reiterate my apology for breaking the guidance, and apologize to my family and loved ones for putting them through this,” he said. “I also need [to] be with my children at this time.”
Hancock, 42, is the latest in a string of British officials to be accused of violating restrictions they imposed on the rest of the population to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
The government is also facing questions about the circumstances under which Hancock hired Coladangelo, a university friend who joined the Department of Health last year. She was initially employed as an unpaid advisor and this year became a non-executive director at the department, a role that pays about $21,000 a year.
Johnson’s Conservative government has been branded a “chumocracy” by critics for hiring special advisors and contractors from outside the civil service without long-customary levels of scrutiny.
Hancock’s department has been accused of waiving procurement rules to award lucrative contracts for protective equipment and other medical essentials, often to personal contacts. Hancock has said he was driven by the need to secure essential supplies quickly at the height of the outbreak.
Hancock has faced weeks of pressure since the prime minister’s former top aide, Dominic Cummings, accused him of botching the government’s response to the pandemic. Cummings, now a bitter critic of the government he once served, told lawmakers last month that Hancock “should have been fired” for alleged lies and errors. He also published a WhatsApp message in which Johnson branded Hancock “totally [ ... ] hopeless,” inserting a vulgarity.
Cummings himself was accused of breaking the rules and undermining the government’s “stay home” message when he drove 250 miles across England to his parents’ home during the spring 2020 lockdown. Johnson resisted pressure to fire him, but Cummings left his job in November amid a power struggle in the prime minister’s office.
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For other people named David Cameron, see David Cameron (disambiguation).
David William Donald Cameron, Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton, (born 9 October 1966) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016, and as UK Foreign Secretary under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak from November 2023 to July 2024. Cameron was Leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016. He was Leader of the Opposition from 2005 to 2010, and Member of Parliament (MP) for Witney from 2001 to 2016. Cameron identifies as a one-nation conservative and has been associated with both economically liberal and socially liberal policies.
Born in London to an upper-middle-class family, Cameron was educated at Eton College and Brasenose College, Oxford. After becoming an MP in 2001, he served in the opposition Shadow Cabinet under Conservative leader Michael Howard, and succeeded Howard in 2005. Following the 2010 general election, negotiations led to Cameron becoming prime minister as the head of a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats. His premiership was marked by the effects of the 2007–2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession, which his government sought to address through austerity measures. His administration passed the Health and Social Care Act and the Welfare Reform Act, which introduced large-scale changes to healthcare and welfare. It also enforced stricter immigration policies via the Home Office hostile environment policy, introduced reforms to education under Michael Gove as Education Secretary and oversaw the 2012 London Olympics. Cameron's administration privatised Royal Mail and some other state assets, and legalised same-sex marriage in England and Wales. Internationally, Cameron oversaw Operation Ellamy in the First Libyan Civil War and authorised the bombing of the Islamic State in Syria. Domestically, his government oversaw the 2011 United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum and Scottish independence referendum, both of which confirmed Cameron's favoured outcome. When the Conservatives secured an unexpected majority in the 2015 general election, he remained as prime minister, this time leading a Conservative-only government known as the Second Cameron ministry. Cameron introduced a referendum on the UK's continuing membership of the European Union in 2016. He supported the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign which lost. Following the success of Vote Leave, Cameron resigned as prime minister and was succeeded by Theresa May, his home secretary.
He resigned his seat on 12 September 2016, and maintained a low political profile. He served as the president of Alzheimer's Research UK from 2017 to 2023, and was implicated in the Greensill scandal. Cameron released his memoir, For the Record, in 2019. In 2023 Cameron was appointed foreign secretary by Rishi Sunak and given a life peerage, created Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton. His tenure as foreign secretary was dominated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Israel-Hamas war, and the Gaza humanitarian crisis. After the Conservatives lost the 2024 general election in a landslide to the opposition Labour Party, Cameron was succeeded by David Lammy and retired from frontline politics. However, he maintains his House of Lords seat.[1]
As prime minister, Cameron was credited for helping to modernise the Conservative Party and for reducing the UK's national deficit. However, he was subject to criticism for austerity measures. In historical rankings of prime ministers of the United Kingdom, academics and journalists have ranked him in the fourth and third quintiles. Cameron was the first former prime minister to be appointed to a ministerial post since Alec Douglas-Home in 1970, and the first former prime minister to be raised to the peerage since Margaret Thatcher.
Early life and education
Early family life
Further information: Family of David Cameron
David William Donald Cameron was born on 9 October 1966 at the London Clinic in Marylebone, London,[2] and raised at Peasemore in Berkshire.[3] He has two sisters and an elder brother, Alexander Cameron.[4] Cameron is the younger son of Ian Donald Cameron, a stockbroker, and his wife Mary Fleur, a retired Justice of the Peace and daughter of Sir William Mount, 2nd Baronet.[5] He is also a descendant of William IV through one of the king's illegitimate children.[2]
Cameron's father, Ian, was born at Blairmore House near Huntly, Aberdeenshire, and died near Toulon, France, on 8 September 2010;[6] Blairmore was built by Cameron's great-great-grandfather, Alexander Geddes,[7][8] who had made a fortune in the grain trade in Chicago, Illinois, before returning to Scotland in the 1880s.[9] Blairmore was sold soon after Ian's birth.[8]
Cameron has said: "On my mother's side of the family, her mother was a Llewellyn, so Welsh. I'm a real mixture of Scottish, Welsh and English."[10] He has also referenced the German Jewish ancestry of one of his great-grandfathers, Arthur Levita, a descendant of the Yiddish author Elia Levita.[11][12]
Education
Cameron was educated at two private schools. From the age of seven, he was taught at Heatherdown School in Winkfield, Berkshire. Owing to good grades, he entered its top academic class almost two years early.[13] At the age of 13, he went on to Eton College in Berkshire, following his father and elder brother.[14] His early interest was in art. Six weeks before taking his O levels, he was caught smoking cannabis.[15] He admitted the offence and had not been involved in selling drugs, so he was not expelled; instead he was fined, prevented from leaving the school grounds and given a "Georgic" (a punishment that involved copying 500 lines of Latin text).[16]
Cameron passed twelve O levels and then three A levels: history of art; history, in which he was taught by Michael Kidson; and economics with politics. He obtained three 'A' grades and a '1' grade in the scholarship level exam in economics and politics.[17] The following autumn, he passed the entrance exam for the University of Oxford, and was offered an exhibition at Brasenose College.[18]
After leaving Eton in 1984,[19] Cameron started a nine-month gap year. For three months, he worked as a researcher for his godfather Tim Rathbone, then Conservative MP for Lewes, during which time he attended debates in the House of Commons.[20] Through his father, he was then employed for a further three months in Hong Kong by Jardine Matheson as a 'ship jumper', an administrative post.[21]
Returning from Hong Kong, Cameron visited the then-Soviet Union, where he was approached by two Russian men speaking fluent English. He was later told by one of his professors that it was "definitely an attempt" by the KGB to recruit him.[22]
In October 1985, Cameron began his Bachelor of Arts course in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Brasenose College, Oxford.[23] His tutor, Vernon Bogdanor, has described him as "one of the ablest" students he has taught,[24] with "moderate and sensible Conservative" political views.[4]
Guy Spier, who shared tutorials with Cameron, remembers him as an outstanding student: "We were doing our best to grasp basic economic concepts. David—there was nobody else who came even close. He would be integrating them with the way the British political system is put together. He could have lectured me on it, and I would have sat there and taken notes."[25] When commenting in 2006 on his former pupil's ideas about a "Bill of Rights" to replace the Human Rights Act, however, Bogdanor, himself a Liberal Democrat, said: "I think he is very confused. I've read his speech and it's filled with contradictions. There are one or two good things in it but one glimpses them, as it were, through a mist of misunderstanding".[26]
While at Oxford, Cameron was a member of the Bullingdon Club, an exclusive all male student dining society with a reputation for an outlandish drinking culture associated with boisterous behaviour and damaging property.[27] In his 2019 memoir For the Record, Cameron wrote about being a member of the Bullingdon and its impact on his political career, saying: "When I look now at the much-reproduced photograph taken of our group of appallingly over-self-confident 'sons of privilege', I cringe. If I had known at the time the grief I would get for that picture, of course I would never have joined. But life isn't like that..." and: "These were also the years after the ITV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited when quite a few of us were carried away by the fantasy of an Evelyn Waugh-like Oxford existence."[28] Cameron's period in the Bullingdon Club was examined in a 2009 Channel 4 docu-drama, When Boris Met Dave, the title referring to Boris Johnson, another high-profile Conservative party figure, the then-mayor of London, who had been a member at the same time, and who would go on to be prime minister himself. He graduated in 1988 with a first-class honours BA degree (later promoted to an MA by seniority).[29]
Early political career
Conservative Research Department
After graduation, Cameron worked for the Conservative Research Department between September 1988 and 1993. His first brief was Trade and Industry, Energy and Privatisation; he befriended fellow young colleagues, including Edward Llewellyn, Ed Vaizey and Rachel Whetstone. They and others formed a group they called the "Smith Square set", which was dubbed the "Brat Pack" by the press, though it is better known as the "Notting Hill set", a name given to it pejoratively by Derek Conway. In 1991 Cameron was seconded to Downing Street to work on briefing John Major for the then twice-weekly sessions of Prime Minister's Questions. One newspaper gave Cameron the credit for "sharper ... Despatch box performances" by Major,[31] which included highlighting for Major "a dreadful piece of doublespeak" by Tony Blair (then the Labour Employment spokesman) over the effect of a national minimum wage.[32] He became head of the political section of the Conservative Research Department, and in August 1991 was tipped to follow Judith Chaplin as political secretary to the prime minister.[33]
However, Cameron lost to Jonathan Hill, who was appointed in March 1992. Instead, he was given the responsibility for briefing Major for his press conferences during the 1992 general election.[34] During the campaign, Cameron was one of the young "brat pack" of party strategists who worked between 12 and 20 hours a day, sleeping in the house of Alan Duncan in Gayfere Street, Westminster, which had been Major's campaign headquarters during his bid for the Conservative leadership.[35] Cameron headed the economic section; it was while working on this campaign that Cameron first worked closely with and befriended Steve Hilton, who was later to become Director of Strategy during his party leadership.[36] The strain of getting up at 04:45 every day was reported to have led Cameron to decide to leave politics in favour of journalism.[37]
Special Adviser to the Chancellor
The Conservatives' unexpected success in the 1992 election led Cameron to hit back at older party members who had criticised him and his colleagues, saying "whatever people say about us, we got the campaign right", and that they had listened to their campaign workers on the ground rather than the newspapers. He revealed he had led other members of the team across Smith Square to jeer at Transport House, the former Labour headquarters.[38] Cameron was rewarded with a promotion to Special Adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont.[39]
Cameron was working for Lamont at the time of Black Wednesday, when pressure from currency speculators forced the pound sterling out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism. At the 1992 Conservative Party conference, he had difficulty trying to arrange to brief the speakers in the economic debate, having to resort to putting messages on the internal television system imploring the mover of the motion, Patricia Morris, to contact him.[40] Later that month, Cameron joined a delegation of Special Advisers who visited Germany to build better relations with the Christian Democratic Union; he was reported to be "still smarting" over the Bundesbank's contribution to the economic crisis.[41]
Lamont fell out with John Major after Black Wednesday and became highly unpopular with the public. Taxes needed to be raised in the 1993 Budget, and Cameron fed the options Lamont was considering through to Conservative Campaign Headquarters for their political acceptability to be assessed.[42] By May 1993, the Conservatives' average poll rating dropped below 30%, where they would remain until the 1997 general election. Major and Lamont's personal ratings also declined dramatically. Lamont's unpopularity did not necessarily affect Cameron, who was considered as a potential "kamikaze" candidate for the Newbury by-election, which includes the area where he grew up.[44] However, Cameron decided not to stand.
During the by-election, Lamont gave the response "Je ne regrette rien" to a question about whether he most regretted claiming to see "the green shoots of recovery" or admitting to "singing in his bath" with happiness at leaving the European Exchange Rate Mechanism. Cameron was identified by one journalist as having inspired this gaffe; it was speculated that the heavy Conservative defeat in Newbury may have cost Cameron his chance of becoming chancellor himself, even though as he was not a member of Parliament he could not have been.[45] Lamont was sacked at the end of May 1993, and decided not to write the usual letter of resignation; Cameron was given the responsibility to issue to the press a statement of self-justification.[46]
Special Adviser to the Home Secretary
After Lamont was sacked, Cameron remained at the Treasury for less than a month before being specifically recruited by Home Secretary Michael Howard. It was commented that he was still "very much in favour"[47] and it was later reported that many at the Treasury would have preferred Cameron to carry on.[48] At the beginning of September 1993, he applied to go on Conservative Central Office's list of prospective parliamentary candidates (PPCs).
Cameron was much more socially liberal than Howard but enjoyed working for him. According to Derek Lewis, then Director-General of Her Majesty's Prison Service, Cameron showed him a "his and her list" of proposals made by Howard and his wife, Sandra. Lewis said that Sandra Howard's list included reducing the quality of prison food, although she denied this claim. Lewis reported that Cameron was "uncomfortable" about the list.[50] In defending Sandra Howard and insisting that she made no such proposal, the journalist Bruce Anderson wrote that Cameron had proposed a much shorter definition on prison catering which revolved around the phrase "balanced diet", and that Lewis had written thanking Cameron for a valuable contribution.[51]
During his work for Howard, Cameron often briefed the media. In March 1994, someone leaked to the press that the Labour Party had called for a meeting with John Major to discuss a consensus on the Prevention of Terrorism Act. After an inquiry failed to find the source of the leak, Labour MP Peter Mandelson demanded assurance from Howard that Cameron had not been responsible, which Howard gave.[52][53] A senior Home Office civil servant noted the influence of Howard's Special Advisers, saying previous incumbents "would listen to the evidence before making a decision. Howard just talks to young public school gentlemen from the party headquarters."[54]
Carlton
In July 1994, Cameron left his role as Special Adviser to work as the Director of Corporate Affairs at Carlton Communications.[55] Carlton, which had won the ITV franchise for London weekdays in 1991, was a growing media company which also had film-distribution and video-producing arms. Cameron was suggested for the role to Carlton executive chairman Michael P. Green by his later mother-in-law Lady Astor.[56] He left Carlton in 1997 to run for Parliament, returning to his job after his defeat.
In 1997 Cameron played up the company's prospects for digital terrestrial television, for which it joined with ITV Granada and Sky to form British Digital Broadcasting. In a roundtable discussion on the future of broadcasting in 1998, he criticised the effect of overlapping different regulators on the industry.[57] Carlton's consortium did win the digital terrestrial franchise, but the resulting company suffered difficulties in attracting subscribers. Cameron resigned as Director of Corporate Affairs in February 2001 to run for Parliament for a second time, although he remained on the payroll as a consultant.
Parliamentary candidacies
Having been approved for the PPCs' list, Cameron began looking for a seat to contest for the 1997 general election. He was reported to have missed out on selection for Ashford in December 1994, after failing to get to the selection meeting as a result of train delays.[58] In January 1996, when two shortlisted contenders dropped out, Cameron was interviewed and subsequently selected for Stafford, a constituency revised in boundary changes, which was projected to have a Conservative majority. The incumbent Conservative MP, Bill Cash, ran instead in the neighbouring constituency of Stone, where he was re-elected. At the 1996 Conservative Party Conference, Cameron called for tax cuts in the forthcoming Budget to be targeted at the low-paid and to "small businesses where people took money out of their own pockets to put into companies to keep them going".[60] He also said the Party "should be proud of the Tory tax record but that people needed reminding of its achievements ... It's time to return to our tax-cutting agenda. The socialist prime ministers of Europe have endorsed Tony Blair because they want a federal pussy cat and not a British lion."[61]
When writing his election address, Cameron made his own opposition to British membership of the single European currency clear, pledging not to support it. This was a break with official Conservative policy, but about 200 other candidates were making similar declarations.[62] Otherwise, Cameron kept closely to the national party line. He also campaigned using the claim that a Labour government would increase the cost of a pint of beer by 24p; however, the Labour candidate, David Kidney, portrayed Cameron as "a right-wing Tory". Initially, Cameron thought he had a 50/50 chance, but as the campaign wore on and the scale of the impending Conservative defeat grew, Cameron prepared himself for defeat. On election day, Stafford had a swing of 10.7%, almost the same as the national swing, which made it one of the many seats to fall to Labour: Kidney defeated Cameron by 24,606 votes (47.5%) to 20,292 (39.2%), a majority of 4,314 (8.3%).[64][65]
In the round of selection contests taking place in the run-up to the 2001 general election, Cameron again attempted to be selected for a winnable seat. He tried for the Kensington and Chelsea seat after the death of Alan Clark, but did not make the shortlist. He was in the final two but narrowly lost at Wealden in March 2000,[66] a loss ascribed by Samantha Cameron to his lack of spontaneity when speaking.[67]
Cameron was selected as PPC for Witney in Oxfordshire in April 2000. This had been a safe Conservative seat, but its sitting MP Shaun Woodward (who had worked with Cameron on the 1992 election campaign) had "crossed the floor" to join the Labour Party, and was selected instead for the safe Labour seat of St Helens South. Cameron's biographers Francis Elliott and James Hanning describe the two men as being "on fairly friendly terms".[68] Cameron, advised in his strategy by friend Catherine Fall, put a great deal of effort into "nursing" his potential constituency, turning up at social functions and attacking Woodward for changing his mind on fox hunting to support a ban.[69]
During the election campaign, Cameron accepted the offer of writing a regular column for The Guardian's online section.[70] He won the seat with a 1.9% swing to the Conservatives, taking 22,153 votes (45%) to Labour candidate Michael Bartlet's 14,180 (28.8%), a majority of 7,973 (16.2%).[71][72]
Parliamentary backbencher
Upon his election to Parliament, Cameron served as a member of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, a prominent appointment for a newly elected MP. He proposed that the Committee launch an inquiry into the law on drugs,[73] and urged the consideration of "radical options".[74] The report recommended a downgrading of ecstasy from Class A to Class B, as well as moves towards a policy of 'harm reduction', which Cameron defended.[75]
Cameron endorsed Iain Duncan Smith in the 2001 Conservative Party leadership election and organised an event in Witney for party supporters to hear John Bercow speaking for him.[76] Two days before Duncan Smith won the leadership contest on 13 September 2001, the 9/11 attacks occurred. Cameron described Tony Blair's response to the attacks as "masterful", saying: "He moved fast, and set the agenda both at home and abroad. He correctly identified the problem of Islamist extremism, the inadequacy of our response both domestically and internationally, and supported—quite rightly in my view—the action to remove the Taliban regime from Afghanistan."[77]
Cameron determinedly attempted to increase his public visibility, offering quotations on matters of public controversy. He opposed the payment of compensation to Gurbux Singh, who had resigned as head of the Commission for Racial Equality after a confrontation with the police;[78] and commented that the Home Affairs Select Committee had taken a long time to discuss whether the phrase "black market" should be used.[79] However, he was passed over for a front-bench promotion in July 2002; Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith did invite Cameron and his ally George Osborne to coach him on Prime Minister's Questions in November 2002. The next week, Cameron deliberately abstained in a vote on allowing same-sex and unmarried couples to adopt children jointly, against a whip to oppose; his abstention was noted.[80] The wide scale of abstentions and rebellious votes destabilised the Duncan Smith leadership.
In June 2003, Cameron was appointed a shadow minister in the Privy Council Office as a deputy to Eric Forth, then shadow leader of the House. He also became a vice-chairman of the Conservative Party when Michael Howard took over the leadership in November of that year. He was appointed Opposition frontbench local government spokesman in 2004, before being promoted to the Shadow Cabinet that June as head of policy co-ordination. Later, he became shadow education secretary in the post-election reshuffle.[81]
Daniel Finkelstein has said of the period leading up to Cameron's election as leader of the Conservative party that "a small group of us (myself, David Cameron, George Osborne, Michael Gove, Nick Boles, Nick Herbert I think, once or twice) used to meet up in the offices of Policy Exchange, eat pizza, and consider the future of the Conservative Party".[82] Cameron's relationship with Osborne is regarded as particularly close; Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi suggested the closeness of Osborne's relationship with Cameron meant the two effectively shared power during Cameron's time as prime minister.[83] From February 2002 to August 2005, he was a non-executive director of Urbium PLC, operator of the Tiger Tiger bar chain.[84]
Leadership election
Following the Labour victory in the May 2005 general election, Michael Howard announced his resignation as leader of the Conservative Party and set a lengthy timetable for the leadership election. Cameron announced on 29 September 2005 that he would be a candidate. Parliamentary colleagues supporting him included Boris Johnson, shadow chancellor George Osborne, shadow defence secretary and deputy leader of the party Michael Ancram, Oliver Letwin[85] and former party leader William Hague.[86] His campaign did not gain wide support until his speech, delivered without notes, at the 2005 Conservative party conference. In the speech, he vowed to make people "feel good about being Conservatives again" and said he wanted "to switch on a whole new generation."[87] His speech was well-received; The Daily Telegraph said speaking without notes "showed a sureness and a confidence that is greatly to his credit".[88]
In the first ballot of Conservative MPs on 18 October 2005, Cameron came second, with 56 votes, slightly more than expected; David Davis had fewer than predicted at 62 votes; Liam Fox came third with 42 votes; and Kenneth Clarke was eliminated with 38 votes. In the second ballot on 20 October 2005, Cameron came first with 90 votes; David Davis was second, with 57; and Liam Fox was eliminated with 51 votes.[89] All 198 Conservative MPs voted in both ballots.
The next stage of the election process, between Davis and Cameron, was a vote open to the entire party membership. Cameron was elected with more than twice as many votes as Davis and more than half of all ballots issued; Cameron won 134,446 votes on a 78% turnout, to Davis's 64,398.[90] Although Davis had initially been the favourite, it was widely acknowledged that his candidacy was marred by a disappointing conference speech.[91] Cameron's election as the leader of the Conservative Party and leader of the opposition was announced on 6 December 2005. As is customary for an opposition leader not already a member, upon election Cameron became a member of the Privy Council, being formally approved to join on 14 December 2005, and sworn of the council on 8 March 2006.[92]
Reaction to Cameron as Leader
Cameron's relative youth and inexperience before becoming leader invited satirical comparison with Tony Blair. Private Eye soon published a picture of both leaders on its front cover, with the caption "World's first face transplant a success".[93] On the left, the New Statesman unfavourably likened his "new style of politics" to Tony Blair's early leadership years.[94] Cameron was accused of paying excessive attention to appearance: ITV News broadcast footage from the 2006 Conservative Party Conference in Bournemouth showing him wearing four different sets of clothes within a few hours.[95] In his column for The Guardian, comedy writer and broadcaster Charlie Brooker described the Conservative leader as "a hollow Easter egg with no bag of sweets inside" in April 2007.[96]
On the right of the party, Norman Tebbit, the former Conservative chairman, likened Cameron to Pol Pot, "intent on purging even the memory of Thatcherism before building a New Modern Compassionate Green Globally Aware Party".[97] Quentin Davies, who defected from the Conservatives to Labour on 26 June 2007, branded him "superficial, unreliable and [with] an apparent lack of any clear convictions" and stated that Cameron had turned the Conservative Party's mission into a "PR agenda".[98] Traditionalist conservative columnist and author Peter Hitchens wrote: "Mr Cameron has abandoned the last significant difference between his party and the established left", by embracing social liberalism.[99] The Daily Telegraph correspondent and blogger Gerald Warner was particularly scathing about Cameron's leadership, saying that it alienated traditionalist conservative elements from the Conservative Party.[100]
Before he became Conservative leader, Cameron was reportedly known to friends and family as "Dave", though his preference is "David" in public.[101][102] Labour used the slogan Dave the Chameleon in their 2006 local elections party broadcast to portray Cameron as an ever-changing populist, which was criticised as negative campaigning by the Conservative press, including The Daily Telegraph,[103] though Cameron asserted the broadcast had become his daughter's "favourite video".[104]
Allegations of recreational drug use
During the leadership election, allegations were made that Cameron had used cannabis and cocaine recreationally before becoming an MP.[105] Pressed on this point during the BBC television programme Question Time, Cameron expressed the view that everybody was allowed to "err and stray" in their past.[106] During his 2005 Conservative leadership campaign, he addressed the question of drug consumption by remarking: "I did lots of things before I came into politics which I shouldn't have done. We all did."[106]
Shadow Cabinet appointments
His Shadow Cabinet appointments included MPs associated with the various wings of the party. Former leader William Hague was appointed to the foreign affairs brief, while both George Osborne and David Davis were retained, as shadow chancellor of the Exchequer and shadow home secretary, respectively. Hague, assisted by Davis, stood in for Cameron during his paternity leave in February 2006.[107] In June 2008, Davis announced his intention to resign as an MP, and was immediately replaced as shadow home secretary by Dominic Grieve; Davis' surprise move was seen as a challenge to the changes introduced under Cameron's leadership.[108]
A reshuffle of the Shadow Cabinet was undertaken in January 2009, with the chief change being the appointment of former chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke as shadow business, enterprise and regulatory reform secretary. Cameron stated that "With Ken Clarke's arrival, we now have the best economic team." The reshuffle also saw eight other changes made.[109]
European Conservatives and Reformists
During his successful 2005 campaign to be elected leader of the Conservative Party, Cameron pledged that the Conservative Party's members of the European Parliament would leave the European People's Party group, which had a "federalist" approach to the European Union.[110] Once elected, Cameron began discussions with right-wing and Eurosceptic parties in other European countries, mainly in eastern Europe; in July 2006, he concluded an agreement to form the Movement for European Reform with the Czech Civic Democratic Party, leading to the formation of a new European Parliament group, the European Conservatives and Reformists, in 2009 after the European Parliament elections.[111] Cameron attended a gathering at Warsaw's Palladium cinema celebrating the foundation of the alliance.[112]
In forming the caucus, which had 54 MEPs drawn from eight of the 27 EU member states, Cameron reportedly broke with two decades of Conservative co-operation with the centre-right Christian Democrats, the European People's Party (EPP),[113] on the grounds that they are dominated by European federalists and supporters of the Lisbon treaty.[113] EPP leader Wilfried Martens, former prime minister of Belgium, stated: "Cameron's campaign has been to take his party back to the centre in every policy area with one major exception: Europe. ... I can't understand his tactics. Merkel and Sarkozy will never accept his Euroscepticism."[113]
Similarly, Cameron's initial "A-List" of prospective parliamentary candidates was attacked by members of his party,[114] and the policy was discontinued in favour of sex-balanced final shortlists. Before being discontinued, the policy had been criticised by senior Conservative MP and former Prisons Spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe as an "insult to women", and she had accused Cameron of "storing up huge problems for the future."[115]
South Africa
In April 2009, The Independent reported that in 1989, while Nelson Mandela remained imprisoned under the apartheid regime, Cameron had accepted a trip to South Africa paid for by an anti-sanctions lobby firm. A spokesperson for him responded by saying that the Conservative Party was at that time opposed to sanctions against South Africa and that his trip was a fact-finding mission. However, the newspaper reported that Cameron's then superior at Conservative Research Department called the trip "jolly", saying that "it was all terribly relaxed, just a little treat, a perk of the job. The Botha regime was attempting to make itself look less horrible, but I don't regard it as having been of the faintest political consequence." Cameron distanced himself from his party's history of opposing sanctions against the regime. He was criticised by Labour MP Peter Hain, himself an anti-apartheid campaigner.[116]
Raising teaching standards
At the launch of the Conservative Party's education manifesto in January 2010, Cameron declared an admiration for the "brazenly elite" approach to education of countries such as Singapore and South Korea, and expressed a desire to "elevate the status of teaching in our country".[117] He suggested the adoption of more stringent criteria for entry to teaching, and offered repayment of the loans of maths and science graduates obtaining first or 2.1 degrees from "good" universities.[118]
Wes Streeting, then president of the National Union of Students, said: "The message that the Conservatives are sending to the majority of students is that if you didn't go to a university attended by members of the Shadow Cabinet, they don't believe you're worth as much."[119]
Expenses
During the parliamentary expenses scandal in 2009 Cameron said he would lead Conservatives in repaying "excessive" expenses and threatened to expel MPs that refused, after the expense claims of several members of his shadow cabinet had been questioned:
We have to acknowledge just how bad this is, the public are really angry and we have to start by saying, "Look, this system that we have, that we used, that we operated, that we took part in—it was wrong and we are sorry about that".[120]
A day later, The Daily Telegraph published figures showing over five years he had claimed £82,450 on his second home allowance.[121] Cameron repaid £680 claimed for repairs to his constituency home.[122] Although he was not accused of breaking any rules, Cameron was placed on the defensive over mortgage interest expense claims covering his constituency home, after a report in The Mail on Sunday suggested he could have reduced the mortgage interest bill by putting an additional £75,000 of his own money towards purchasing the home in Witney, instead of paying off an earlier mortgage on his London home.[123] Cameron said that doing things differently would not have saved the taxpayer any money, as he was paying more on mortgage interest than he was able to reclaim as expenses anyway.[123] He also spoke out in favour of laws giving voters the power to "recall" or "sack" MPs accused of wrongdoing.[123] In April 2014, he was criticised for his handling of the expenses row surrounding Culture Secretary Maria Miller, when he rejected calls from fellow Conservative MPs to sack her from the front bench.[124]
2010 general election
The Conservatives had last won a general election in 1992. The 2010 general election resulted in the Conservatives, led by Cameron, winning the largest number of seats (306). This was, however, 20 seats short of an overall majority, and resulted in the nation's first hung parliament since February 1974.[125]
2010 government formation
Talks between Cameron and then Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg led to an agreed Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition. In late 2009 Cameron had urged the Liberal Democrats to join the Conservatives in a new "national movement", saying there was "barely a cigarette paper" between them on a large number of issues. The invitation was rejected at the time by Clegg who said that the Conservatives were totally different from his party, and that the Lib Dems were the true "progressives" in UK politics.[126]
Elizabeth II, following Gordon Brown's resignation as prime minister on 11 May 2010, extended an invitation to Cameron to establish a new administration based on Brown's recommendation.[127] At age 43, Cameron became the youngest prime minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812, beating the record previously set by Tony Blair in May 1997.[128] In his first address outside 10 Downing Street, he announced his intention to form a coalition government, the first since the Second World War, with the Liberal Democrats.[129]
Nick Clegg and I are both political leaders that want to put aside party differences and work hard for the common good and for the national interest. I believe that is the best way to get the strong government that we need, decisive government that we need today. This is going to be hard and difficult work. A coalition will throw up all sorts of challenges. But I believe together we can provide that strong and stable government that our country needs based on those values – rebuilding family, rebuilding community, above all, rebuilding responsibility in our country.
— David Cameron during his first speech as prime minister, 12 May 2010
Cameron outlined how he intended to "put aside party differences and work hard for the common good and for the national interest."[128] As one of his first moves Cameron appointed Nick Clegg, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, as deputy prime minister on 11 May 2010.[127] Between them, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats controlled 363 seats in the House of Commons, giving them a comfortable majority of 76 seats.[130]
In June 2010, Cameron described the economic situation as he came to power as "even worse than we thought" and warned of "difficult decisions" to be made over spending cuts.[131] By the beginning of 2015, he was able to claim that his government's austerity programme had succeeded in halving the budget deficit, although as a percentage of GDP rather than in cash terms.[132][133]
In December 2010, Cameron attended a meeting with FIFA vice-president Chung Mong-joon, in which a vote-trading deal for the right to host the 2018 World Cup in England was discussed.[134][135]
Cameron agreed to holding the 2014 Scottish independence referendum and eliminated the "devomax" option from the ballot for a straight out yes or no vote. His support for the successful Better Together campaign extended to making a successful request to the Queen to intervene.[136] He had also backed a successful campaign to retain the status quo in a referendum on changing the voting system, held at the request of his coalition partners. The 2016 referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union meant that his tenure as British prime minister saw an unprecedented three referendums on the UK's constitutional future.
Cameron supported the introduction of gay marriage, despite more of his own Conservative MPs voting against the move than for it, meaning the support of Lib Dem MPs in government and Labour MPs in opposition was required to allow it to pass.[137] Earlier in his term, he had managed to secure a huge majority for UK participation in UN-backed military action in Libya,[138] but Cameron became the first prime minister since 1782 to lose a foreign policy vote in the House of Commons over proposed military action against Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria.[139][140] Subsequently, Barack Obama asked congressional approval,[141] which was not ultimately granted.
Economy
In response to the Great Recession, Cameron undertook the austerity programme. This was a deficit reduction programme consisting of sustained reductions in public spending, intended to reduce the government budget deficit and the welfare state in the United Kingdom. The National Health Service[143] and education[144] were "ringfenced" and protected from direct spending cuts.[145] Together with Chancellor George Osborne, Cameron aimed to eliminate the structural deficit (i.e. deficit on current spending as opposed to investment), and to have government debt falling as a percentage of GDP.[146] By 2015, the deficit as a percentage of GDP had been reduced to half what it was in 2010, and the sale of government assets (mostly the shares of banks nationalised in the 2000s) had resulted in government debt as a proportion of GDP falling.[146]
Immigration
Cameron said immigration from outside the EU should be subject to annual limits. He said in July 2013 that "in the last decade we have had an immigration policy that's completely lax. The pressure it puts on our public services and communities is too great."[147] In 2015 The Independent reported: "The Conservatives have failed spectacularly to deliver their pledge to reduce net migration to less than 100,000 a year. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) announced a net flow of 298,000 migrants to the UK in the 12 months to September 2014—up from 210,000 in the previous year."[148]
Defence and foreign affairs
Defence cuts
In 2014 Cameron dismissed warnings that his cuts to the UK defence budget had left it less than a "first class-player in terms of defence" and no longer a "full partner" to the United States.[149]
In the July 2015 budget, Chancellor George Osborne announced that the UK defence spending would meet the NATO target of 2% of GDP.[150]
NATO military intervention in Libya
Further information: Operation Ellamy
Cameron condemned the violence used against anti-Gaddafi protesters at the beginning of the Libyan Civil War[151] After weeks of lobbying by the UK and its allies, on 17 March 2011, the United Nations Security Council approved a no-fly zone to prevent government forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi from carrying out air attacks on anti-Gaddafi rebels.[152] Two days later, the UK and the United States fired more than 110 Tomahawk missiles at targets in Libya.[153]
Cameron said he was "proud" of the role United Kingdom played in the overthrow of Gaddafi's government.[154] Cameron also stated that UK had played a "very important role",[155] adding that "a lot of people said that Tripoli was completely different to Benghazi and that the two don't get on—they were wrong. ... People who said 'this is all going to be an enormous swamp of Islamists and extremists'—they were wrong".[156]
In 2015 through 2016, the Foreign Affairs Select Committee conducted an extensive and highly critical inquiry into the British involvement in the civil war. It concluded that the early threat to civilians had been overstated, and that the significant Islamist element in the rebel forces had not been recognised, due to an intelligence failure. By mid-2011, the initial limited intervention to protect Libyan civilians had become a policy of regime change. However, that new policy did not include proper support for a new government, leading to a political and economic collapse in Libya, and the growth of ISIL in North Africa. It concluded that Cameron was ultimately responsible for this British policy failure.[157][158][159]
US president Barack Obama also acknowledged there had been issues with following up the conflict planning, commenting in an interview with The Atlantic that Cameron had allowed himself to be "distracted by a range of other things".[160][161][162]
Falklands
Further information: Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute
In 2013 in response to Argentina's calls for negotiations over the Falkland Islands' sovereignty, a referendum was called, asking Falkland Islanders whether they supported the continuation of their status as an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom. With a turnout of 91.94%, an overwhelming 99.8% voted to remain a British territory, with only three votes against.[163] In light of this, Cameron said: "We believe in the Falkland islanders' right to self-determination. They had a referendum. They couldn't have been more clear about wanting to remain with our country and we should protect and defend them".[164]
Saudi Arabia
Cameron supported Britain's close relationship with Saudi Arabia.[165] In January 2015, he travelled to the Saudi capital Riyadh to pay his respects, following the death of the nation's King Abdullah. According to WikiLeaks, Cameron initiated a secret deal with Saudi Arabia, ensuring both countries were elected onto the UN Human Rights Council.[166] The same year his government announced "firm political support" for the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen against the Shi'a Houthis,[167] re-supplying the Saudi military with weapons and providing them with training.[168][169][170]
Sri Lanka
Cameron reiterated calls for an independent investigation into the alleged war crimes during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War.[171] "There needs to be proper inquiries into what happened at the end of the war, there needs to be proper human rights, democracy for the Tamil minority in that country" Cameron stated.[172][173] He stated that, if this investigation was not completed by March 2014, he would press for an independent international inquiry.[174][175][176] This followed a visit to Jaffna, a war-ravaged town in the northern part of Sri Lanka; Cameron was the first foreign leader to visit Jaffna since the island once colonised by Britain became independent in 1948.[177][178] Cameron was mobbed by demonstrators, mostly women, seeking his assistance in tracing missing relatives.[179][180]
Turkey
In a speech in Ankara in July 2010, Cameron stated unequivocally his support for Turkey's accession to the EU, citing economic, security and political considerations, and claimed that those who opposed Turkish membership were driven by "protectionism, narrow nationalism or prejudice".[181][182] In that speech, he was also critical of Israeli action during the Gaza flotilla raid and its Gaza policy, and repeated his opinion that Israel had turned Gaza into a "prison camp",[181] having previously referred to Gaza as "a giant open prison".[183] These views were met with mixed reactions.[184][185] The Cameron government declined to formally recognise the Ottoman Empire's massacres of Armenians as a "genocide".[186]
During the EU referendum campaign, Cameron stated that Turkey was unlikely to be ready to join the EU "until the year 3000", at its current rate of progress.[187]
Israel
At the end of May 2011, Cameron stepped down as patron of the Jewish National Fund,[188][189] becoming the first British prime minister not to be patron of the charity in the 110 years of its existence.[190]
In a speech in 2011, Cameron said: "You have a prime minister whose commitment and determination to work for peace in Israel is deep and strong. Britain will continue to push for peace, but will always stand up for Israel against those who wish her harm". He said he wanted to reaffirm his "unshakable" belief in Israel within the same message.[191] He also voiced his opposition to the Goldstone Report, claiming it had been biased against Israel and not enough blame had been placed on Hamas.
In March 2014, during his first visit to Israel as prime minister, Cameron addressed Israel's Knesset in Jerusalem, where he offered his full support for peace efforts between Israelis and Palestinians, hoping a two-state solution might be achieved.[192] He also made clear his rejection of trade or academic boycotts against Israel,[193] acknowledged Israel's right to defend its citizens as "a right enshrined in international law", and made note of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, as "the moment when the State of Israel went from a dream to a plan, Britain has played a proud and vital role in helping to secure Israel as a homeland for the Jewish people."[192] During his two-day visit, he met with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and with Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas.[194] Senior Foreign Office minister Baroness Warsi resigned over the Cameron government's decision not to condemn Israel for the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, saying that the government's "approach and language during the current crisis in Gaza is morally indefensible."[195]
Military intervention in Iraq and Syria
See also: William Hague § Syria
In August 2013, Cameron lost a motion in favour of bombing Syrian armed forces in response to the Ghouta chemical attack, becoming the first prime minister to suffer such a foreign-policy defeat since 1782.[196] In September 2014, MPs passed a motion in favour of British planes joining, at the request of the Iraqi government, a bombing campaign against Islamic State (IS) targets in Iraq;[197] the motion explicitly expressed parliament's disapproval of UK military action in Syria.[198] Cameron promised that, before expanding UK air strikes and ground support to include IS units in Syria, he would seek parliamentary approval.[199]
In July 2015, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by Reprieve revealed that, without the knowledge of UK parliamentarians, RAF pilots had, in fact, been bombing targets in Syria, and that Cameron knew of this.[200][201] The Prime Minister, along with Defence Secretary Michael Fallon, faced strong criticism, including from Conservative MPs, for not informing the Commons about this deployment; the Ministry of Defence said that the pilots concerned were "embedded" with foreign military forces, and so were "effectively" operating as such, while Fallon denied that MPs had been, as he put it, "kept in the dark".[202][203][204] The Reprieve FoI request also revealed that British drone pilots had been embedded, almost continuously, with American forces at Creech Air Force Base since 2008. These drone operators, who were "a gift of services", meaning the UK still paid their salaries and covered their expenses, had been carrying out operations that included reconnaissance in Syria to assist American strikes against IS.[205]
Fallon said that it was "illogical" for the UK not to bomb ISIL in Syria, for the organisation does not "differentiate between Syria and Iraq" and is "organised and directed and administered from Syria".[206] Following the terrorist attacks on Paris in November 2015, for which Islamic State claimed responsibility, Cameron began pushing for a strategy for the Royal Air Force to bomb Syria in retaliation.[207] Cameron set out his case for military intervention to Parliament on 26 November, telling MPs that it was the only way to guarantee Britain's safety, and would be part of a "comprehensive" strategy to defeat IS.[208] On 3 December 2015, MPs voted 397–223 in favour of launching air strikes against ISIL targets in Syria. The vote for military action was supported by all but seven members of the Parliamentary Conservative Party, as well as 66 Labour MPs who backed the government in defiance of their leader, Jeremy Corbyn, who had expressed his opposition to air strikes.[209]
2015 general election
Cameron was re-elected UK prime minister on 7 May 2015 with a majority in the Commons.[210] The Conservative Party's decisive victory in the general election was a surprise, as most polls and commentators had suggested the outcome was too close to call and that the result would be a second hung parliament.[211] Cameron said of his first term when returned as prime minister for a second term that he was "proud to lead the first coalition government in 70 years" and offered particular thanks to Clegg for his role in it.[212] Forming the first Conservative majority government since 1992, David Cameron became the first prime minister to be re-elected immediately after a full term with a larger popular vote share since Lord Salisbury at the 1900 general election.
In response to the November 2015 Paris attacks, Cameron secured the support of the House of Commons to extend air strikes against ISIS into Syria.[213] Earlier that year, Cameron had outlined a five-year strategy to counter Islamist extremism and subversive teachings.[214]
2016 referendum and resignation
I fought this campaign in the only way I know how, which is to say directly and passionately what I think and feel – head, heart and soul. I held nothing back, I was absolutely clear about my belief that Britain is stronger, safer and better off inside the European Union and I made clear the referendum was about this and this alone – not the future of any single politician including myself. But the British people have made a very clear decision to take a different path and as such I think the country requires fresh leadership to take it in this direction. I will do everything I can as prime minister to steady the ship over the coming weeks and months but I do not think it would be right for me to try to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination.
— David Cameron's resignation announcement, 24 June 2016
As promised in the election manifesto, Cameron set a date for a referendum on whether the UK should remain a member of the European Union, and announced that he would be campaigning for Britain to remain within a "reformed EU".[215] The terms of the UK's membership of the EU were re-negotiated, with agreement reached in February 2016.[216] The option to leave came to be known as Brexit (a portmanteau of "British" and "exit").
The referendum was held on 23 June 2016. The result was approximately 52% in favour of leaving the European Union and 48% against, with a turnout of 72%.[217][218] On 24 June, a few hours after the results became known, Cameron announced that he would resign the office of prime minister by the start of the Conservative Party Conference in October 2016. In a speech the next day outside 10 Downing Street, he stated that, on account of his own advocacy on behalf of remaining in the EU: "I do not think it would be right for me to try to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination."[219][220][221][222]
There was some strong criticism made of Cameron and his government following the referendum. Matthew Norman, in an opinion piece in The Independent, called the referendum an act of "indescribably selfish recklessness."[223] In late July, Parliament's Foreign Affairs Select Committee was told that Cameron had refused to allow the Civil Service to make plans for Brexit, a decision the committee described as "an act of gross negligence."[224] His farewell speech as he left No. 10 accompanied by his family stressed the value of selfless public service.[225]
The Conservative Party leadership election was scheduled for 9 September and the new leader was expected to be in place by the autumn conference, set to begin on 2 October.[226] On 11 July, following the withdrawal of Andrea Leadsom from the Conservative Party leadership election and the confirmation of Theresa May as the new leader of the Conservative Party, Cameron announced he would hold a final cabinet meeting on 12 July and then, following a final Prime Minister's Questions, submit his resignation to the Queen on the afternoon of 13 July. Cameron delivered his resignation speech in front of 10 Downing Street on the 11 July. Cameron's resignation speech attracted further attention when he walked away humming a tune, picked up by microphone, after he had finished his speech.[227] After his final Prime Minister's Questions, Cameron received a standing ovation from MPs; his final comment was, "I was the future once"—a reference to his 2005 quip to Tony Blair, "he was the future once". Cameron then submitted his resignation to the Queen later that day.[228]
Although no longer serving as prime minister, Cameron originally stated that he would continue inside Parliament, on the Conservative backbenches.[229] On 12 September, however, he announced that he was resigning his seat with immediate effect,[230] and was appointed to the Manor of Northstead. He was succeeded as MP for Witney by fellow Conservative Robert Courts.[231] The Washington Post described him as having "sped away without glancing back" once Theresa May had "vaulted herself out of the hurricane-strength political wreckage of Britain's vote to leave the European Union."[232]
The last thing I would say is that you can achieve a lot of things in politics and get a lot of things done; in the end, public service and the national interest is what it is all about. Nothing is really impossible if you put your mind to it. After all, as I once said, I was the future once.
— David Cameron's last official words as Prime Minister, said at Prime Minister's Questions (13 July 2016)
Positions
In October 2016, Cameron became chairman of the National Citizen Service Patrons.[233] In January 2017, he was appointed president of Alzheimer's Research UK to address misconceptions surrounding dementia and campaign for medical research funding to tackle the condition.[234]
All appointments post-premiership have to be approved by the UK government's Advisory Committee on Business Appointments. In addition to the two posts above, they also approved the following positions:[235]
Consultant for Illumina Inc.
Vice-chair, UK China Fund
Director, ONE
Consultant for First Data Corp.
Member of Council on Foreign Relations
Chairman, LSE-Oxford Commission on Growth in Fragile States
Registered member of Washington Speakers Bureau
Chairman of advisory board, Afiniti[236]
Speaker Booking Agency[237]
Brexit
Cameron maintained a low profile following his resignation as prime minister and the subsequent Brexit negotiations. In January 2019, following May's defeat in the House of Commons over her draft withdrawal agreement, Cameron gave a rare interview to reporters outside his house in Notting Hill, saying he backed May's Brexit deal with the EU and did not regret calling the 2016 referendum.[238] However, he later said that the outcome of the referendum had left him "hugely depressed", and told The Times he knew "some people will never forgive me". He confessed: "Every single day I think about it, and the fact that we lost, and the consequences, and the things that could have been done differently, and I worry desperately".[239]
In the months following Boris Johnson's election as prime minister, Cameron began criticising Johnson's Brexit strategy, including his decision to prorogue parliament ahead of the Brexit deadline of 31 October, and the removal of the whip from Conservative MPs who voted to block a no-deal Brexit. Additionally, he accused Johnson, as well as Michael Gove, of behaving "appallingly" during the referendum campaign of 2016.[239]
In September 2020, Cameron became the fifth former prime minister to criticise the UK Internal Market Bill, over which he said he had "misgivings". He said the "bigger picture" was about trying to get a trade deal with the EU, urging the government to "keep that context [and] that big prize in mind."[240]
Memoir
Main article: For the Record (book)
Cameron published a memoir, For the Record, on 19 September 2019 through HarperCollins.[241] He was reported to have signed an £800,000 contract for the book.[242] According to the Guardian, the book was initially scheduled for 2018, but was delayed so Cameron would not be perceived as a "backstreet driver" in the ongoing Brexit negotiations.[241][243] The book gives an insight into his life at 10 Downing Street, as well as inside explanations of the decisions taken by his government. Cameron said that his aim in writing the book was to "correct the record" where he thought it was wrong.[244]
Greensill scandal
Further information: Greensill scandal
During Cameron's premiership, the financier Lex Greensill, was an unpaid advisor who had access to eleven government departments.[245] In 2018 he became an advisor to Greensill Capital and held share options in the company[246] reportedly worth as much as $60 million as well as being paid over $1 million each year for 25 days' work per year.[245][247] A Panorama investigation concluded that, overall, through a combination of his salary and share sales, Cameron earned around $10 million before tax for 30 months' part-time work.[248]
In 2019 Cameron arranged for a private meeting with Lex Greensill and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock; under Hancock, several NHS trusts went on to use Greensill Capital's Earnd app.[249] In 2020 a few months before Greensill Capital collapsed, Cameron lobbied the government to bend the rules to allow it to receive Covid Corporate Financing Facility loans.[250][251][252][253] He sent several text messages to Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, who ultimately declined to help Greensill; Cameron also held ten virtual meetings with permanent secretaries Tom Scholar and Charles Roxburgh to try to obtain money for Greensill.[245][254][255] The government-owned British Business Bank lent Greensill up to £400m through a different scheme, leading to a potential £335m loss to the taxpayer.[256] After press revelations in 2021 regarding the extent of Greensill Capital's access, a formal investigation was launched by the UK lobbying registrar to be led by Nigel Boardman, a non-executive board member of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.[257][258]
NYU Abu Dhabi
In January 2023, Cameron was assigned to teach politics in a three-week course at New York University Abu Dhabi. He was to lecture students on "practising politics and government in the age of disruption", which included topics like the Ukraine war and migration crisis.[259]
Migrant crisis
In May 2023, Cameron expressed support for the Rwanda asylum plan and Suella Braverman's policies against illegal immigration into the UK, arguing in an interview with LBC: "I think if you don't have a better answer to the things that the government is doing to try and stop this illegal trade, then I think there's no point criticising."[260][261]
COVID-19 Inquiry
Cameron gave evidence to the UK COVID-19 Inquiry on 19 June 2023.[262]
The Prime Minister has asked me to serve as his Foreign Secretary and I have gladly accepted. We are facing a daunting set of international challenges, including the war in Ukraine and the crisis in the Middle East. At this time of profound global change, it has rarely been more important for this country to stand by our allies, strengthen our partnerships and make sure our voice is heard. While I have been out of front-line politics for the last seven years, I hope that my experience – as Conservative Leader for eleven years and Prime Minister for six – will assist me in helping the Prime Minister to meet these vital challenges.
— David Cameron after being appointed foreign secretary, 13 November 2023
In Rishi Sunak's cabinet reshuffle on 13 November 2023, Cameron was appointed foreign secretary, replacing James Cleverly, who became home secretary. It was also announced simultaneously that he would receive a life peerage, thus making Cameron a member of the House of Lords and the first former prime minister to be raised to the peerage since Margaret Thatcher.[263] He was created Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton, of Chipping Norton in the County of Oxfordshire on 17 November 2023.[264][265] Cameron was introduced to the House of Lords on 20 November, supported by Nicholas True, Baron True and Susan Williams, Baroness Williams of Trafford.[266][267]
His tenure was dominated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Israel-Hamas war, and the Gaza humanitarian crisis. Cameron visited 35 countries and territories during his tenure as Foreign Secretary, and was deputised in the House of Commons by Andrew Mitchell. Cameron visited the site of the Be'eri massacre, part of the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, on 23 November to meet Israeli foreign minister Eli Cohen. Afterwards, he met the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss among other urgent matters, facilitating further aid to Gaza.[268] Cameron said in an interview with the BBC that he told Israeli officials that "they must abide by international humanitarian law" and that the number of Palestinian casualties was "too high". He also said that the "settler violence" against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank is "completely unacceptable".[269] Cameron backed a "sustainable ceasefire" in the Gaza Strip on 17 December, called for more aid to reach Gaza, and called for the Israeli government to "do more to discriminate sufficiently between terrorists and civilians". He, however, rejected calls for a "general and immediate ceasefire", differentiating this from the "sustainable ceasefire" he called for alongside German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock.[270]
In January 2024, he expressed concern about potential breaches of international law by Israel, specifically addressing the need for Israel to restore water supplies to Gaza.[271] Cameron said in the same month that "Israel is acting in self-defence after the appalling attack on October 7" and denied that Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza. He dismissed South Africa's ICJ genocide case against Israel as "nonsense", saying that Israel is "a democracy, a country with the rule of law, a country with armed forces that are committed to obeying the rule of law".[272] Cameron announced in late January that the government would consider recognising Palestine as a country, while also adding that would help to make a two-state solution "irreversible".[273]
Cameron supported the February 2024 US Senate bill to allocate military aid to Ukraine Taiwan and Israel, saying that he did not want the West to "show weakness displayed against Vladimir Putin in 2008, when he invaded Georgia, or the uncertainty of the response in 2014, when he took Crimea and much of the Donbas—before coming back to cost us far more with his aggression in 2022".[274] In the event the Senate bill failed to pass in the House of Representatives, where it was stalled by the GOP partisans of Donald Trump.[275][276] At last a redrafted legislative package was put forward by Speaker Mike Johnson each of which passed the House with bipartisan support and large majorities on 20 April,[277] but not before Cameron was snubbed by Johnson.[278]
Iran attacked Israel in April 2024 with 301 drones and missiles, and the UK aided Israel to shoot them all down with RAF Eurofighter Typhoons.[279] Cameron told LBC radio host Nick Ferrari that, were the UK to offer the same sort of support to Ukraine, it would represent a "dangerous escalation."[280] In the same month, he became the first British foreign secretary to visit Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan.[281] In June 2024, Cameron was tricked by Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus, posing as former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko. Cameron, duped into believing he was actually speaking to Poroshenko, made a series of disclosures relating to the war in Ukraine, including details from a private dinner he had with U.S. presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump.[282][283]
After the Conservatives lost the 2024 general election in a landslide to the opposition Labour Party led by Keir Starmer, Cameron was succeeded by David Lammy, whom he congratulated.[284] He announced a few days later that he would be retiring from frontline politics whilst continuing to support the party, with Mitchell becoming shadow foreign secretary in Sunak's shadow cabinet instead.[285][286][287] However, he maintains his House of Lords seat.[1]
It’s been a huge honour to serve as Foreign Secretary, but clearly the Conservative Party in opposition will need to shadow the new Foreign Secretary from the Commons. So I told Rishi Sunak that I would step back. I’m delighted that the Shadow Foreign Secretary role has gone to my good friend Andrew Mitchell. As a committed Conservative I will continue to support the Party and help where I can as we rebuild from the very disappointing election result.
— David Cameron's retirement statement, 8 July 2024
Political positions
Self-description of views
Cameron described himself in December 2005 as a "modern compassionate conservative" and spoke of a need for a new style of politics, saying that he was "fed up with the Punch and Judy politics of Westminster".[288] He was "certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite",[289] saying he was a "liberal Conservative", though "not a deeply ideological person."[290] As leader of the opposition, Cameron asserted that he did not intend to oppose the government as a matter of course, and would offer his support in areas of agreement. He has urged politicians to concentrate more on improving people's happiness and "general well-being", instead of focusing solely on "financial wealth".[291] There were claims that he described himself to journalists at a dinner during the leadership contest as the "heir to Blair".[292]
In his first Conservative conference speech as party leader in Bournemouth in 2006, he described the National Health Service as "one of the 20th Century's greatest achievements". He went on to say: "Tony Blair explained his priorities in three words: education, education, education. I can do it in three letters: N.H.S." He also talked about his severely disabled son, Ivan, concluding: "So, for me, it is not just a question of saying the NHS is safe in my hands—of course it will be. My family is so often in the hands of the NHS, so I want them to be safe there."[293]
Cameron said that he believed in "spreading freedom and democracy, and supporting humanitarian intervention" in cases such as the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. However, he rejected neoconservatism because, as a conservative, he recognises "the complexities of human nature, and will always be sceptical of grand schemes to remake the world."[294] A supporter of multilateralism, as "a country may act alone—but it cannot always succeed alone", he believes multilateralism can take the form of acting through "NATO, the UN, the G8, the EU and other institutions", or through international alliances.[295] Cameron said: "If the West is to help other countries, we must do so from a position of genuine moral authority" and "we must strive above all for legitimacy in what we do."[295]
Cameron believes that British Muslims have a duty to integrate into British culture, but noted in an article published in 2007, that the Muslim community finds aspects such as high divorce rates and drug use uninspiring, and: "Not for the first time, I found myself thinking that it is mainstream Britain which needs to integrate more with the British Asian way of life, not the other way around."[296] In his first speech as PM on radicalisation and the causes of terrorism in February 2011, Cameron said that "state multiculturalism" had failed.[297] In 2010 he appointed the first Muslim member of the British cabinet, Baroness Warsi, as a minister without portfolio, and in 2012 made her a special minister of state in foreign affairs. She resigned, however, in August 2014 over the government's handling of the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict.
While urging members of his party to support the coalition's proposals for same-sex marriage, Cameron said that he backed gay marriage not in spite of his conservatism, but because he is a conservative, and claimed it was about equality.[298] In 2012 Cameron publicly apologised for Thatcher-era policies on homosexuality, specifically the introduction of the controversial Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988, which he described as "a mistake".[299]
Home affairs
Poverty
In 2006 Cameron described poverty as a "moral disgrace"[300] and promised to tackle relative poverty.[301] In 2007 Cameron promised: "We can make British poverty history, and we will make British poverty history". The same year he also stated: "Ending child poverty is central to improving child well-being".[302] In 2015 Polly Toynbee questioned Cameron's commitment to tackling poverty, contrasting his earlier statements agreeing that "poverty is relative" with proposals to change the government's poverty measure, and saying that cuts in child tax credits would increase child poverty among low-paid working families.[303] Cameron denied that austerity had contributed to the 2011 England riots, instead blaming street gangs and opportunistic looters.[304]
LGBT rights
In 2010 Cameron was given a score of 36% in favour of lesbian, gay and bisexual equality by Stonewall.[305] Prior to 2005 Cameron was opposed to gay rights, calling it a "fringe agenda" and attacking Prime Minister Tony Blair for "moving heaven and earth to allow the promotion of homosexuality in our schools" by repealing the anti-gay Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988.[306] Cameron is recorded by Hansard as having voted against same-sex adoption rights in 2002, but he denies this, claiming he abstained from the three-line whip imposed on him by his party. In 2008, he wanted lesbians who receive IVF treatment to be required to name a father figure, which received condemnation from LGBT equality groups.[306] However, Cameron supported commitment for gay couples in a 2005 speech, and in October 2011 urged Conservative MPs to support gay marriage.[298]
In November 2012, Cameron and Nick Clegg agreed to fast-track legislation for introducing same-sex marriage.[307] Cameron stated that he wanted to give religious groups the ability to host gay marriage ceremonies, and that he did not want to exclude gay people from a "great institution".[308] In 2013 the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 became law despite opposition from more than half of his fellow Conservative MPs, including Cabinet ministers Owen Paterson and David Jones.[309] He also subsequently appointed two women who had voted against same-sex marriage as ministers in the Government Equalities Office, Nicky Morgan and Caroline Dinenage following the 2015 general election.[310]
In August 2013, he rejected calls by Stephen Fry and others to strip Russia from hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics due to its anti-gay laws.[311] Cameron did not attend the games, but denied it was a boycott in protest at Russia's laws, having previously raised the issue of gay rights in the country with Vladimir Putin.[312]
Marriage and family values
In 2009 Cameron said "the restoration of family values and a new commitment to economic and social responsibility" were "key to repairing 'broken Britain'".[313] In 2013 Cameron described himself as "a marriage man, I am a great supporter of marriage. I want to promote marriage, defend marriage, encourage marriage." As such, he rejected calls from Conservative MP Christopher Chope to extend civil partnership rights to heterosexual couples, saying: "I think we should be promoting marriage rather than looking at any other way of weakening it."[314] In 2018 the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that this position was discriminatory.[315]
Cameron criticised Gordon Brown (when Brown was Chancellor of the Exchequer) for being "an analogue politician in a digital age" and referred to him as "the roadblock to reform".[316] As prime minister, he reacted to press reports that Brown could be the next head of the International Monetary Fund by hinting that he may block the appointment, citing the huge national debt that Brown left the country with as a reason for Brown not being suitable for the role.[317]
He said that John Prescott "clearly looks a fool" after Prescott's personal indiscretions were revealed in spring 2006, and wondered if the Deputy Prime Minister had broken the ministerial code.[318] During a speech to the Ethnic Media Conference in November 2006, Cameron also described Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London, as an "ageing far left politician" following Livingstone's criticism of Trevor Phillips, head of the Commission for Racial Equality.[319]
In April 2006, Cameron accused the UK Independence Party of being "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists, mostly",[320] leading UKIP MEP Nigel Farage (who became leader in September of that year) to demand an apology for the remarks. Right-wing Conservative MP Bob Spink, who later defected to UKIP, also criticised the remarks,[321] as did The Daily Telegraph.[322] Cameron was seen encouraging Conservative MPs to join the standing ovation given to Tony Blair at the end of his last Prime Minister's Question Time; he had paid tribute to the "huge efforts" Blair had made and said Blair had "considerable achievements to his credit, whether it is peace in Northern Ireland or his work in the developing world, which will endure".[323]
In January 2007, Cameron made a speech in which he described extremist Islamic organisations and the British National Party as "mirror images" to each other, both preaching "creeds of pure hatred".[324] Cameron is listed as being a supporter of Unite Against Fascism.[325]
In September 2015, after the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, Cameron called the party a "threat" to British national and economic security, on the basis of Corbyn's defence and fiscal policies.[326]
Foreign affairs
Iraq War
In an interview on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross in 2006, Cameron said that he supported the decision of the then Labour Government to go to war in Iraq, and said that he thought supporters should "see it through".[327] He also supported a motion brought by the SNP and Plaid Cymru in 2006, calling for an inquiry into the government's conduct of the Iraq war. In 2011 he oversaw the withdrawal of British soldiers from Iraq. He repeatedly called for the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war to conclude and publish its findings, saying: "People want to know the truth".[328]
India
Cameron was a strong advocate of increased ties between India and the United Kingdom, describing Indian–British relations as the "New Special Relationship" in 2010.[329][330]
In October 2012, as Narendra Modi rose to prominence in India, the UK rescinded its boycott of the then-Gujarat state Chief Minister over religious riots in Gujarat in 2002 that left more than 2,000 dead,[331] and in November 2013, Cameron commented that he was "open" to meeting Modi.[332] Modi was later elected as prime minister in a landslide majority, leading to Cameron calling Modi and congratulating him on the "election success",[333] one of the first Western leaders to do so.[334]
Israel
In January 2024, Cameron dismissed South Africa's ICJ genocide case against Israel as "nonsense", saying that Israel is "a democracy, a country with the rule of law, a country with armed forces that are committed to obeying the rule of law".[272]
China
In October 2015, Xi Jinping, the president of the People's Republic of China, paid a state visit to the United Kingdom under the Premiership of Cameron. Episodes, such as the Chinese leader famously having a pint with Cameron at a local pub in Buckinghamshire,[335] and Queen Elizabeth hailing the visit as "milestone" during state banquet,[336] symbolised the increased cordiality between China and the United Kingdom under Cameron, in spite of the controversies around the state visit and the concerns with China's superpower status. The state visit was the third formal Anglo–Chinese diplomatic meetings, which involves either head of states or head of governments, following Cameron's visit to China in 2013 and then–Premier Li Keqiang's UK visit in 2014; the year 2015 alone also marked an unprecedented level of bilateral meetings and visits.[337]
The unprecedented level of friendly relations with China has also led to many, including the PRC and Cameron himself, marking his premiership as a "golden-era" of UK–China relations, where bilateral cooperation between the countries reached its apex. The UK government was even seen expressing interests in participating in Chinese diplomatic projects under Xi Jinping, such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).[338] By 2023, upon Cameron's appointment as foreign secretary, eight years apart from the state visit of Xi, he was associating by media outlets, home and abroad, with the keyword "golden era",[339] even dubbing Cameron himself as "Lord Golden Era",[340] prompting concerns over the stances of the Sunak government towards China as the latter welcomes Cameron's appointment as foreign secretary.[341]
Russia
In the years after Cameron became UK prime minister, UK relations with Russia initially showed a marked improvement. In 2011 Cameron visited Russia, and in 2012, Putin visited the UK for the first time in seven years, holding talks with Cameron, and also visiting the 2012 London Olympics together.[342]
In May 2013, Cameron flew to meet Putin at his summer residence in Sochi, Bocharov Ruchei, to hold talks on the Syria crisis. Cameron described the talks as "very substantive, purposeful and useful", and the leaders exchanged presents with each other. At that time, it was suggested that Cameron could use his good relations with both US president Barack Obama, and President Putin to act as a 'go-between' in international relations.[343] However, Cameron's relations to Russia soured drastically following the Russo-Ukrainian War. Cameron criticised the 2014 Crimean status referendum as a "sham", with voters having "voted under the barrel of a kalashnikov", stating "Russia has sought to annex Crimea.... This is a flagrant breach of international law and something we will not recognise."[344] Cameron has gone on to be a fierce critic of Russia, and Putin, and supporter of Ukraine.[345]
Political image
In April 2016, then Labour MP for Bolsover, Dennis Skinner was reprimanded by House Speaker John Bercow for referring to Cameron as 'Dodgy Dave' (related to Skinner's contention of Cameron's dishonesty) in a parliamentary debate about the Panama Papers. Skinner was instructed by Bercow to repeat his question without referring to Cameron using the adjective 'dodgy'. When Skinner repeated his question, once again referring to Cameron as 'Dodgy Dave', he was ordered to leave parliament for the remainder of that day's session. [346][347] In July 2016, Skinner once again referred to Cameron as 'Dodgy Dave' in parliament, however this time he was not reprimanded, or asked to leave.[348]
"Dodgy Dave" has gained usage in the media, and on social media, when Cameron is being referred to disparagingly.[349][350][351][352][353]
Allegations of social elitism
As leader of the Conservative Party, Cameron was accused of relying on "old-boy networks", and criticised by his party for the imposition of selective shortlists of women and ethnic minority prospective parliamentary candidates.[354][114] Several of Cameron's senior appointments, such as George Osborne as chancellor of the Exchequer, are former members of the Bullingdon Club. Michael Gove conceded it was "ridiculous" how many fellow Cabinet ministers were old Etonians, though he placed the blame on the failings of the state education system rather than Cameron.[355] However, Michael Mosbacher, co-founder of Standpoint, wrote that Cameron's cabinet has the lowest number of Etonians of any past Conservative government: "David Cameron's government is the least patrician, least wealthy and least public-school-educated—indeed the least Etonian Conservative-led government this country has ever seen".[356]
Plots against leadership
Following poor results in the May 2012 local elections after a difficult few months for the government, with Labour increasing its lead in the polls, there were concerns from Conservative MPs about Cameron's leadership and his electability. David Davies, the chairman of the Welsh Affairs Select Committee, accused the Conservative leadership of "incompetence", and hinted that it could risk Cameron's leadership.[357] Nadine Dorries warned the Prime Minister that a leadership challenge could happen.[358]
Later that year, Conservative MP Brian Binley openly said that Cameron's leadership was like being a "maid" to the Liberal Democrats, and accused him of leading the party to defeat. In January 2013, it was revealed that Adam Afriyie was planning his own bid for the Conservative leadership with the support of fellow MPs Mark Field, Bill Wiggin, Chris Heaton-Harris, Patrick Mercer, Jonathan Djanogly and Dan Byles. The Times and ConservativeHome revealed that a "rebel reserve" of 55 Conservative MPs gave firm pledges to a co-ordinating MP to support a motion of no confidence and write to Brady simultaneously, more than the 46 MPs needed to trigger a vote of no confidence.[359] Andrew Bridgen openly called for a vote of confidence in Cameron's leadership, and claimed that the Prime Minister had a "credibility problem", but he dropped his bid for a contest a year later.[360]
Cameron and Andy Coulson
In 2007 Cameron appointed Andy Coulson, former editor of the News of the World, as his director of communications. Coulson had resigned as the paper's editor following the conviction of a reporter in relation to illegal phone hacking, although stating that he knew nothing about it.[361][362] In June 2010, Downing Street confirmed Coulson's annual salary as £140,000, the highest pay of any special adviser to UK Government.[363]
In January 2011, Coulson left his post, saying that coverage of the phone-hacking scandal was making it difficult to give his best to the job.[361] In July 2011, Coulson was arrested and questioned by police in connection with further allegations of illegal activities at the News of the World, and released on bail. Despite a call to apologise for hiring Coulson by the Leader of the Opposition, Cameron defended the appointment, saying that he had taken a conscious choice to give someone who had screwed up a second chance.[364] The same month, in a special parliamentary session at the House of Commons, arranged to discuss the News International phone hacking scandal, Cameron said that he "regretted the furore" that had resulted from his appointment of Coulson, and that "with hindsight" he would not have hired him.[365] Coulson was detained and charged with perjury by Strathclyde Police in May 2012.[366][367] Coulson was convicted of conspiracy to hack phones in June 2014. Prior to the jury handing down their verdict, Cameron issued a "full and frank" apology for hiring him, saying: "I am extremely sorry that I employed him. It was the wrong decision and I am very clear about that." The judge hearing Coulson's trial was critical of the Prime Minister, pondering whether the intervention was out of ignorance or deliberate, and demanded an explanation.[368]
Cameron and Michael Ashcroft
Although Lord Michael Ashcroft played a significant role in the 2010 election, he was not offered a ministerial post.[369] In June 2012, shortly before a major Conservative rebellion on House of Lords reform,[370] journalist Peter Oborne credited Ashcroft with "stopping the Coalition working" by moving policy on Europe, welfare, education and taxation to the right.[369] According to Oborne, Ashcroft, owner of both the ConservativeHome and PoliticsHome websites and a "brutal critic of the Coalition from the start", had established "megaphone presence" in the on-line media. He believes Cameron's philosophy of liberal conservatism has been destroyed by "coordinated attacks on the Coalition" and "the two parties are no longer trying to pretend that they are governing together."[369]
In The Observer, Andrew Rawnsley commented that he believes that Ashcroft uses carefully timed opinion polls to "generate publicity", "stir trouble for the Prime Minister" and influence the direction of the party.[371] In 2015, Ashcroft released Call Me Dave, an unauthorised biography of Cameron written with journalist Isabel Oakeshott, which attracted significant media attention for various lurid allegations about Cameron's time at university. The book includes an anonymous anecdote about Cameron, now referred to as Piggate, in which he allegedly inserted his penis into a dead pig's head. No evidence for the anecdote has been produced. Many commentators have described the accusations as a "revenge job" by Ashcroft, who was not offered a senior role in government when Cameron came to power in 2010.[372][373] Ashcroft initially claimed the book was "not about settling scores", while Oakeshott said that they had held back publication until after the 2015 general election to avoid damaging Cameron and the Conservatives' electoral chances.[374] Ashcroft subsequently admitted that the initiation allegations "may have been case of mistaken identity" and has stated that he has a personal "beef" with Cameron.[372][373][375][376][377] Cameron later went on to deny these allegations and stated that Ashcroft's reasons for writing the book were clear and the public could see clearly through it.[378]
Standing in opinion polls
An ICM poll in September 2007 saw Cameron rated the least popular of the three main party leaders.[379][380] A YouGov poll on party leaders conducted on 9–10 June 2011 found 44% of the electorate thought he was doing well and 50% thought he was doing badly, while 38% thought he would be the best PM and 35% did not know.[381] In the run up to the 2015 election, Cameron achieved his first net positive approval rating in four years, with a YouGov poll finding 47% of voters thought he was doing well as prime minister compared with 46% who thought he was doing badly.[382]
In September 2015, an Opinium poll had similar results to the one shortly before the election, with voters split with 42% who approved of him and 41% who did not.[383] Cameron had significantly better net approval ratings in polls conducting in December and January (getting −6 in both) than Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (who got −38 and −39).[384] However, following the Panama Papers leak in April 2016, his personal approval ratings fell below Corbyn's.[385]
Evaluations of premiership
In the months immediately following his resignation from the post of prime minister, a number of commentators gave negative evaluations of Cameron's premiership. The University of Leeds' 2016 survey of post-war prime ministers, which collected the views of 82 academics specialising in the history and politics of post-war Britain, ranked Cameron as the third-worst prime minister since 1945, ranking above only Alec Douglas-Home and Anthony Eden. 90% of respondents cited his calling and losing of the Brexit referendum as his greatest failure.[386]
In popular culture
Cameron made a cameo appearance in the BBC television programme Top Gear's India Special, where he tells the trio of Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond to "stay away from India" after initially denying the group's request to improve economic relations with India in a letter and suggested that they mend fences with Mexico. He later stated through his aides that he did not like the special that he cameoed in, and that he had the "utmost respect" for the people of India.[387] Cameron was portrayed by comedian Jon Culshaw in ITV's satirical sketch show Newzoids,[388] and by Mark Dexter in the Channel 4 television films Coalition and Brexit: The Uncivil War. In 2019 he was interviewed for The Cameron Years, a BBC mini-documentary series on his premiership.[389]
Amid the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal on 8 November 2012, Cameron was interviewed by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby on This Morning, and Schofield presented him with a list he had obtained from the internet of five people named as paedophiles in connection with the North Wales child abuse scandal.[390] The names of several former senior Conservative politicians were visible on the list.[391] Cameron responded by warning against a witchhunt, "particularly about people who are gay".[392] Schofield was widely criticised for his action,[390] with broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby describing his behaviour as "cretinous".[393] ITV's director of television, Peter Fincham, said that Schofield was "wrong" in confronting Cameron and the broadcaster had agreed to co-operate fully with government regulator Ofcom's investigation into the matter. The investigation was initiated after Ofcom received 415 complaints from viewers. Schofield later apologised, blaming a misjudged camera angle.[391] Schofield and ITV later paid £125,000 compensation to settle a libel suit from one of those falsely accused, Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green.[394]
Personal life
Family
Cameron married Samantha Sheffield, the daughter of Sir Reginald Sheffield, 8th Baronet, and Annabel Lucy Veronica Jones (later Viscountess Astor) in 1996.[395] They have had four children. Their first child, Ivan Reginald Ian, was born on 8 April 2002 in Hammersmith and Fulham, London, with a rare combination of cerebral palsy and a form of severe epilepsy called Ohtahara syndrome, requiring round-the-clock care. Recalling the receipt of this news, Cameron was quoted as saying: "The news hits you like a freight train ... You are depressed for a while because you are grieving for the difference between your hopes and the reality. But then you get over that, because he's wonderful."[396] Ivan was cared for at the specialist NHS Cheyne Day Centre in West London, which closed shortly after he left it. Ivan died at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London, on 25 February 2009, aged six.[397]
The Camerons have two daughters, Nancy Gwen (born 2004) and Florence Rose Endellion (born 2010),[398] and a son, Arthur Elwen (born 2006).[399] Cameron took paternity leave when Arthur was born, and this decision received broad coverage.[400] It was also stated that Cameron would be taking paternity leave after his second daughter was born.[398] She was born at the Royal Cornwall Hospital on 24 August 2010, three weeks prematurely, while the family was on holiday in Cornwall. Her third given name, Endellion, is taken from the village of St Endellion near where the Camerons were holidaying.[401][402]
In early May 2008, the Camerons decided to enroll their daughter Nancy at a state primary school. For three years before that, they had been attending its associated church, St Mary Abbots,[403] near the Cameron family home in North Kensington.[404] Cameron's constituency home is in Dean, Oxfordshire, and the Camerons have been described as key members of the Chipping Norton set.[405]
It was announced that Cameron would miss Prime Minister's Questions on 8 September 2010 to fly to southern France to see his father, Ian Cameron, who had had a stroke with coronary complications. Later that day, his father died.[406] Cameron attended a private ceremony for the funeral of his father on 17 September 2010 in Berkshire, which prevented him from hearing the address of Pope Benedict XVI in Westminster Hall, an occasion he would otherwise have attended.[407] In 2012 Cameron was criticised for leaving his daughter alone in a pub. Cameron had apparently left and forgotten her.[408]
Inheritance and family wealth
In October 2010, Cameron inherited £300,000 from his father's estate. Ian Cameron, who had worked as a stockbroker in the City of London, used multimillion-pound investment funds based in offshore tax havens, such as Jersey, Panama City and Geneva, to increase the family wealth. In 1982, Ian Cameron created the Panamanian Blairmore Holdings, an offshore investment fund, valued at about $20 million in 1988, "not liable to taxation on its income or capital gains", which used bearer shares until 2006.[409]
In April 2016, following the Panama Papers financial documents leak, Cameron faced calls to resign, after it was revealed that he and his wife Samantha had invested in Ian Cameron's offshore fund.[410] He owned £31,500 of shares in the fund and sold them for a profit of £19,000 shortly before becoming prime minister in 2010, which he paid full UK tax on.[411] Cameron argued that the fund was set up in Panama so that people who wanted to invest in dollar-denominated shares and companies could do so, and because full UK tax was paid on all profits he made, there was no impropriety.[412] A protest was held in London in April 2016, demanding Cameron's resignation.[413][414]
In 2009 the New Statesman estimated his wealth at £3.2 million, adding that Cameron is expected to inherit "million-pound legacies" from both sides of his family.[415]
Leisure
Before becoming prime minister, Cameron regularly used his bicycle to commute to work. In early 2006 he was photographed cycling to work, followed by his driver in a car carrying his belongings. His Conservative Party spokesperson subsequently said that this was a regular arrangement for Cameron at the time.[416] Cameron is an occasional jogger and in 2009 raised funds for charities by taking part in the Oxford 5K and the Great Brook Run.[417]
Cameron supports Aston Villa.[418] A member of MCC, he is also a keen cricket fan and has appeared on Test Match Special.[419]
A 2012 biography, Cameron: Practically a Conservative, stated that "If 'chillaxing' was an Olympic sport then David Cameron, would win a gold medal", citing Cameron's fondness for relaxing. The biography stated that Cameron's "ability to separate his private life from his professional life is seen as an asset by some friends, and by others as a sign of complacency in the midst of a double dip recession."[420]
Faith
At a Q&A in August 2013, Cameron described himself as a practising Christian and an active member of the Church of England.[421] On religious faith in general, he said: "I do think that organised religion can get things wrong but the Church of England and the other churches do play a very important role in society."[422] He said he considers the Bible "a sort of handy guide" on morality.[423] He viewed Britain as a "Christian country", and aimed to put faith back into politics.[424]
Bibliography
Cameron, David; Jones, Dylan (2008). Cameron on Cameron: Conversations with Dylan Jones. Fourth Estate. ISBN 9780007285365.
Cameron, David (2009). Tory Policy Making: The Conservative Research Department, 1929-2009. Conservative Research Department. ISBN 978-1905116041.
Cameron, David (2019). For the Record. William Collins. ISBN 9781785176593.
References
Further reading
Alexandre-Collier, Agnès. "David Cameron, Boris Johnson and the ‘populist hypothesis’ in the British Conservative Party." Comparative European Politics 20.5 (2022): 527–543 online
Allen, Chris. "Cameron, Conservatives and a Christian Britain: a critical exploration of political discourses about religion in the contemporary United Kingdom." Societies 8.1 (2018): 5–20 doi:10.3390/soc8010005
Ashcroft, Michael. Call Me Dave: The Unauthorised Biography of David Cameron (Biteback Publishing, 2015) online.
Atkins, Judi, Timothy Heppell, and Kevin Theakston. "The rise of the novice cabinet minister? The career trajectories of cabinet ministers in British Government from Attlee to Cameron." Political Quarterly 84.3 (2013): 362–370. online
Bale, Tim. "The oratory of David Cameron." in Conservative orators from Baldwin to Cameron (Manchester University Press, 2016) pp. 182–197.
Bale, Tim (2011). The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron. Polity Press. ISBN 978-0-7456-4858-3.
Bennister, Mark, and Richard Heffernan. "The limits to prime ministerial autonomy: Cameron and the constraints of coalition." Parliamentary Affairs 68.1 (2015): 25–41. online
Bennister, Mark, and Richard Heffernan. "Cameron as prime minister: The intra-executive politics of Britain's coalition government." Parliamentary Affairs 65.4 (2012): 778–801. online
Elliott, Francis; Hanning, James (2012). Cameron: Practically a Conservative. Fourth Estate. ISBN 978-0-00-743642-2. , a full biography
Evans, Stephen. "Consigning its past to history? David Cameron and the Conservative Party." Parliamentary Affairs 61.2 (2008): 291–314.
Evans, Stephen. "‘Mother's Boy’: David Cameron and Margaret Thatcher." British Journal of Politics and International Relations 12.3 (2010): 325–343.
Goodlad, Graham. "The Fall of David Cameron." Political Insight 7.2 (2016): 16–19.
Hayton, Richard. "British conservatism after the vote for Brexit: The ideological legacy of David Cameron." British Journal of Politics and International Relations 20.1 (2018): 223–238. online
Heppell, Timothy. Cameron: The politics of modernisation and manipulation (Manchester University Press, 2019) online.
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David Cameron took scandal-hit financier Lex Greensill for a “private drink” with Health SecretaryMatt Hancock to discuss a payment scheme later rolled out in the NHS
The Sunday Times also reported that the Treasury reconsidered Mr Greensill’s application for an emergency coronavirus loan after the former prime minister messaged a senior adviser to Boris Johnson.
Mr Cameron was said to have described the decision to exclude his employer’s firm, Greensill Capital, from the multibillion-pound scheme as “nuts” and pressed for the Chancellor to reconsider.
“What we need is for Rishi (Sunak) to have a good look at this and ask officials to find a way of making it work,” Mr Cameron wrote last year.
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The developments are the latest in a lobbying controversy that has dogged the Conservative former prime minister in recent weeks.
Questions were mounting over his efforts to secure access for the finance company, which later collapsed putting thousands of UK steelmaking jobs at risk.
Mr Greensill was understood to have written to Mr Hancock’s office about the payment scheme in August 2019, copying in NHS England chairman Lord Prior, before the Health Secretary commissioned advice from officials.
An ally of Mr Hancock confirmed a drink took place between Mr Cameron, the Health Secretary and the Australian financier in October 2019.
Mr Greensill’s firm at the time wanted to introduce a flexible scheme to pay doctors and nurses either daily or weekly.
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NHS SBS, a joint venture between the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and a French IT firm, went on to announce in October last year that Earnd, a mobile app that was then a division of Greensill, would be available free-of-charge to NHS employees to access their pay.
Mr Hancock referred Mr Greensill to work directly with the NHS rather than his department, according to the ally, who insisted the final decision to use the scheme was for local NHS employers.
“Matt acted in entirely the correct way – he updated officials on the business that was discussed, as is appropriate,” the friend said.
Mr Cameron is yet to comment publicly about the “growing scandal”, as Labour has called it.
But a source close to the former prime minister said: “David Cameron was an enthusiastic champion of Greensill’s pay product, Earnd, and met with various people to discuss its rollout across the NHS.”
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: “The wellbeing of NHS staff is the top priority of the department and Health Secretary.
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Mr Greensill is also yet to comment on the controversy.
A source close to him said: “As part of their corporate social responsibility, Greensill offered Earnd for free to the NHS – that is no charge to employees, and no charge to the NHS either. Greensill met all costs themselves.”
Meanwhile, it was understood that Mr Cameron’s message to the Prime Minister’s adviser was forwarded on to the Treasury.
But it could not be immediately confirmed whether the lobbying did lead to the Treasury reconsidering its move to reject the loan scheme application.
A No 10 spokesman: “Throughout the pandemic, an immense number of businesses contacted Downing Street with representations; these were passed on to relevant departments.”
This week, it emerged the Chancellor responded to private texts from Mr Cameron saying he had “pushed” officials to consider plans that could have helped Greensill in 2020.
Labour called for Mr Sunak to “come out of hiding” and make a statement to Parliament about the “growing scandal”, and reiterated demands for an investigation.
Shadow chief secretary to the treasury Bridget Phillipson said: “Every day brings fresh revelations about the culture of cronyism at the heart of this Conservative Government.
“Through David Cameron, Greensill looks to have had the run of Government from Number 10 down, including access to millions of pounds of public money.”
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The Treasury also reconsidered Greensill's application for an emergency coronavirus loan after the former prime minister messaged a senior adviser to Boris Johnson.
Cameron was said to have described the decision to exclude his employer's firm, Greensill Capital, from the multibillion-pound scheme as "nuts" and pressed for the Chancellor to reconsider.
"What we need is for Rishi [Sunak] to have a good look at this and ask officials to find a way of making it work," Cameron wrote last year.
The developments are the latest in a lobbying controversy that has dogged the Conservative former prime minister in recent weeks.
Questions were mounting over his efforts to secure access for the finance company, which later collapsed putting thousands of UK steelmaking jobs at risk.
Greensill was understood to have written to Hancock's office about the payment scheme in August 2019, copying in NHS England chairman Lord Prior, before the Health Secretary commissioned advice from officials.
An ally of Hancock confirmed a drink took place between Cameron, the Health Secretary and the Australian financier in October 2019.
Greensill's firm at the time wanted to introduce a flexible scheme to pay doctors and nurses either daily or weekly.
NHS SBS, a joint venture between the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and a French IT firm, went on to announce in October last year that Earnd, a mobile app that was then a division of Greensill, would be available free-of-charge to NHS employees to access their pay.
Hancock had referred Greensill to work directly with the NHS rather than his department, according to the ally, who insisted the final decision to use the scheme was for local NHS employers.
"Matt acted in entirely the correct way – he updated officials on the business that was discussed, as is appropriate," the friend said.
Cameron is yet to comment publicly about the "growing scandal", as Labour has called it.
But a source close to the former prime minister said: "David Cameron was an enthusiastic champion of Greensill's pay product, Earnd, and met with various people to discuss its rollout across the NHS."
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Meanwhile, it was understood that Cameron's message to the Prime Minister's adviser was forwarded on to the Treasury.
But it could not be immediately confirmed whether the lobbying did lead to the Treasury reconsidering its move to reject the loan scheme application.
A No 10 spokesman: "Throughout the pandemic, an immense number of businesses contacted Downing Street with representations; these were passed on to relevant departments."
This week, it emerged the Chancellor responded to private texts from Cameron saying he had "pushed" officials to consider plans that could have helped Greensill in 2020.
Labour called for Sunak to "come out of hiding" and make a statement to Parliament about the "growing scandal", and reiterated demands for an investigation.
Labour shadow chief secretary to the treasury, Bridget Phillipson, said: "Every day brings fresh revelations about the culture of cronyism at the heart of this Conservative Government.
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The controversy engulfing the U.K. government over its ties to business intensified as it emerged a second official held a position at Greensill Capital while still in his post, and Health Secretary Matt Hancock was accused of “cronyism” over the award of contracts to a company he owns shares in.
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The controversy engulfing the U.K. government over its ties to business intensified as it emerged a second official held a position at Greensill Capital while still in his post, and Health Secretary Matt Hancock was accused of “cronyism” over the award of contracts to a company he owns shares in.
NHS Wales gave Topwood Ltd. two contracts worth 150,000 pounds ($206,000) for “confidential waste destruction” last month. Hancock, who is responsible for the National Health Service in England, has declared in the register of interests for members of Parliament he owns 15% of shares in the firm. His sister, Emily Gilruth, is a director of the firm, according to official records.
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Key political figures involved in pandemic planning have been appearing before the Covid-19 Inquiry.
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1. Cameron and Osborne deny austerity affected our preparedness
As had been long-trailed, inquiry chair Baroness Hallett is exploring the impact of austerity on the UK’s preparedness for the pandemic – and both David Cameron and George Osborne defended austerity as a political choice that in fact left the country better prepared to tackle a crisis. But as the IfG has written, our own research – put to Osborne during the hearing – found that public spending reductions made it harder to maintain standards in crisis. Professor Michael Marmot – a leading academic and expert adviser to the inquiry – has also demonstrated in his research that health inequalities were exacerbated by austerity, which then played out during the pandemic.
2. The UK prepared for the ‘wrong’ pandemic – or did it?
Another clear line of questioning was on whether the government prepared for the ‘wrong’ pandemic. On this there was more agreement. Cameron repeatedly acknowledged that pandemic preparations had focused on influenza and that this had been a serious shortcoming – though he did not go as far as explaining why other forms of virus had received less attention, admitting that “it is very hard to answer why [that was] the case.” This theme raised more questions than answers as it emerged that, in 2016, Public Health England had undertaken a one-day planning exercise on coronaviruses – Exercise Alice – which made observations about the need to stockpile PPE, look at border control measures and plan for mass contact tracing. The inquiry will no doubt explore the extent to which Exercise Alice’s recommendations were heeded – and if not, why not.
There are other aspects of the ‘flu defence’ which are confusing too. Though it might have been harder to conceive of legally enforced lockdowns as part of this scenario, previous influenza pandemics – including as far back as the Spanish Flu outbreak in 1918 – did result in social distancing, enforced school closures, shop closures and transportation restrictions, which meant influenza planning should have anticipated major economic shocks of the kind we experienced.
3. Questions are being asked about the role of ministers
The role of ministers – and in particular the importance of political attention as a means of getting things done in government – has been in the spotlight. When reflecting on central government’s approach to planning for and dealing with major risks, David Cameron was firm that the system works best when "the prime minister is in the chair… making the decisions." Boris Johnson, of course, failed to attend some early COBR meetings on Covid-19. Expect this to be a line of questioning when Johnson is called to give evidence – most likely as part of the second module on government decision making, starting later this year.
A similar theme emerged in one of the hearings that got a little less attention: Chris Wormald, the permanent secretary for the Department of Health and Social Care, who also gave evidence last Monday. He was asked at some length about concerns expressed by members of the health department’s board on the “continuing lack of engagement” of then-health secretary Jeremy Hunt. Board members’ concerns were raised at a meeting looking into 2016’s Exercise Cygnus, an influenza pandemic planning exercise.
4. There is disagreement about the impact of Brexit
Did Brexit affect pandemic planning? A letter from chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty to Sir Chris Wormald in early 2019 showed that almost 20 workstreams on pandemic planning were paused, reduced or stopped because team members and other resources had to be shifted to focus on planning for a no-deal Brexit. One of the areas that suffered because of this reprioritisation was a refresh of pandemic influenza plans – which would have included planning around adult social care and vaccines. However, Wormald was careful to set out that Brexit preparations had also been helpful for pandemic preparedness – for instance, helping the department to build capabilities that were subsequently used during the pandemic. Our own work has similarly found that some processes and systems developing during Brexit were redeployed during the pandemic.
Former health secretary Matt Hancock MP, former first of minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon and Dame Jenny Harries, England’s deputy chief office during the pandemic, are giving evidence this week. The hearings will no doubt give us more answers about decision making during the pandemic – but they will give the inquiry more pressing questions to ask in the weeks, months and years to come.
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LONDON (AP) — Britain’s health secretary has resigned after a tabloid splashed photos and videos of him kissing an aide in his office — breaking the same coronavirus social distancing rules he imposed on the nation.
While Matt Hancock was swiftly replaced, the scandal was another blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Conservative government, which has repeatedly come under criticism for incompetence and hypocrisy in its handling of the pandemic over the past year.
“People have made huge sacrifices to beat the pandemic and what riles them is the whiff of hypocrisy that people make the rules and don’t stick to them themselves,” Conservative lawmaker Andrew Bridgen told the BBC on Sunday.
Hancock announced his resignation Saturday, a day after apologizing for breaching social distancing rules after the Sun tabloid published images showing him and senior aide Gina Coladangelo embracing and kissing in his office. The Sun said the images were taken on May 6, before lockdown rules were eased to allow hugs and physical contact with people not in one’s own household.
Hancock, who is married, wasn’t the first senior British politician caught red-handed for breaking the government’s own COVID-19 rules.
Johnson’s former top aide, Dominic Cummings, was accused of undermining the government’s “stay home” message during Britain’s first lockdown in 2020 when he broke a travel ban and drove across England to his parents’ home. The breach caused a furor and was widely seen to erode public trust in Johnson’s government.
And Neil Ferguson, a leading government scientific adviser who advocated for strict lockdown rules, quit his position in May 2020 after it emerged he didn’t practice what he preached and allowed his girlfriend to visit him at home. At the time, Hancock remarked that the social distancing rules in place “are there for everyone” and are “deadly serious.”
On Sunday, many questioned why Johnson publicly stood by Hancock after evidence of the latest rule breach emerged. Johnson had expressed confidence in the health minister, and his office said he had considered the matter closed after Hancock’s apology, despite widespread calls to fire him.
“Boris Johnson should have had the guts, the spine, the awareness, the judgment, to sack him on Friday,” said Jonathan Ashworth, the opposition Labour Party’s health spokesman.
Hancock had come under fire for his leadership in the government’s response to the pandemic long before the publishing of the intimate photos.
He was accused of cronyism for hiring his friend, businesswoman Dido Harding, to run the much-criticized national test and trace system. Questions were also raised after the government awarded a lucrative coronavirus testing contract to a company run by a pub landlord near Hancock’s former constituency home. Hancock has denied involvement in the contract.
Some are now also asking how Coladangelo, a close friend of Hancock’s from university, landed her job as a non-executive director at the Department of Health.
The scandal came on the back of wider accusations from the opposition about “sleaze” in the Conservative party. Last month, former Prime Minister David Cameron was called before lawmakers to answer questions about lobbying work he did to win government funds for a now-bankrupt financial services company.
Lucy Powell, a Labour lawmaker, said the fact that Hancock wasn’t fired reflected poorly on Johnson’s judgment.
“I’m afraid it feels to me that the prime minister has a very dangerous blind spot when it comes to issues of integrity and conduct in public life,” she told Sky News. “That’s a really big problem and it’s an even bigger problem when you’re in the middle of a pandemic and you’re asking the public to also have integrity and conduct in the way that they go about with their own lives.”
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At the age of 35 Prime Minister David Cameron invited Matt to attend the UK Cabinet – becoming the third youngest person to do so since the Second World War – as Minister for Business and Energy, and then as Postmaster General, where he was responsible for the efficiency and digitalisation of government.
This included the digitisation of many citizen-facing services, and the ensuing efficiencies and reforms of civil service terms led to the smallest civil service since the war. Matt launched the new National Cyber Security Centre, a model that has been replicated by many countries around the world.
During the 2016 referendum on the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union, Matt supported the Remain campaign. Subsequently appointed as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, he navigated the passage of key legislation such as the UK’s Data Protection Act, positioning the UK as a global tech investment hub and become the third biggest recipient of tech investment in the world, after the US and China.
In 2018, Prime Minister Theresa May asked Matt to become Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. Understanding his background in data and technology, Matt was asked to modernise the NHS and unleash the power of UK health data. As Health Secretary, Matt was responsible for a budget of over £200bn, and for 1.4 million NHS employees – the fifth largest organisation in the world – as well as the provision of social care and health protection. Matt developed, launched, and implemented the NHS Long Term Plan, a reform programme to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the NHS.
Matt spearheaded groundbreaking initiatives during his tenure, including the creation of the NHS app, which revolutionised access to health data for citizens and enhanced data interoperability. Additionally, he established NHSX as the innovation hub within the NHS, furthering technological advancements and driving efficiency.
His reform programme included the first-ever NHS workforce plan, hiring a Chief People Officer for the first time, and successfully settling the junior doctor strike, which had been ongoing for many years.
When Theresa May announced she would be standing down in 2019, Matt stood to succeed her as Prime Minister, coming fifth in the race, behind eventual winner, Boris Johnson, who reappointed him as Health Secretary. Matt’s commitment to hire 50,000 more nurses, and build 40 new hospitals, were at the centre of the Conservative’s successful 2019 election campaign.
As Secretary of State for Health and Social Care during the coronavirus pandemic, Matt was responsible for steering the country, the NHS, and the UK health system through the most significant global health crisis in a century.
From leading Downing Street press conferences and chairing COBR meetings to liaising with international leaders and overseeing the world’s most successful vaccination programme, Matt was at the forefront of government, working closely with the Prime Minister, as well as the UK’s Chief Medical Officer, to decide how the world’s sixth largest economy would respond to the virus.
Matt founded the UK Health Security Agency and was at the forefront of the UK government's communication with the public, fronting the daily press conference, and answering questions in Parliament. He was at the forefront of global pandemic response coordination and chaired the weekly G7 Health Ministers pandemic response meeting.
Matt chaired the UK Vaccine Delivery Board, which in December 2020 delivered the world’s first clinically approved vaccine for COVID-19, delivering more than 3 billion doses to 183 countries around the world.
Through the UK’s commitment to ensuring global fair access, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is estimated to have saved 6.3 million lives in the first year of the global vaccine rollout – the most out of all the vaccines in circulation at the time.
Matt’s leadership extends beyond the Covid-19 response. He championed initiatives to strengthen the NHS, increased funding for mental health services, and improved access to healthcare for all UK citizens. Under Matt’s leadership, the NHS began its digital transformation, harnessing technology to improve patient care, streamline operations and enhance efficiency.
Since stepping down from government in June 2021, Matt has championed the early identification of dyslexia, as well as other neurodivergent conditions, building on his own personal experience. Last year, Matt founded the Accessible Learning Foundation (ALF) and in 2024 introduced the Neurodivergent Conditions (Screening and Teacher Training) Bill into the UK Parliament. He continues to work closely with the ALF trustees.
Outside of politics, Matt has a strong interest in technology and its potential to benefit society. He is particularly passionate about advancements in artificial intelligence and health technology and explores ways to use tech innovations for social good.
In his spare time, Matt enjoys spending time with his three children, playing cricket, horse racing, running, and participating in physical challenges. Matt is an adventurer. In 2005 Matt broke the world record for the most northerly game of cricket ever played, pulling on the pads at the North Pole. Matt has completed the London marathon twice and is the first MP since the First World War to win a horse race under rules, when he crossed the line first in a charity race in Newmarket, in 2012.
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On 9 July 2018, after the promotion of Jeremy Hunt to Foreign Secretary, Hancock was named Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.[3]
On 25 May 2019, Hancock announced his plans to run for leadership of the Conservative Party.[4] He withdrew from the race on 14 June shortly after winning only twenty votes on the first ballot.[5]
In May 2021, Hancock was filmed kissing an assistant during the COVID-19 pandemic. He also attended Boris Johnson's party during the national quarantine. Both of these events angered many people. He announced his resignation as Secretary for Health on 26 June 2021,[6] with Sajid Javid taking over as Health Secretary.[7]
In November 2022, Matt Hancock was announced as a contestant on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here (a show where celebrities live in a jungle). He was suspended from the Conservative Party because of this. Hancock made it to the final and finished in third place out of 12 celebrities.
He will also be a contestant on SAS: Who Dares Wins.
Matt Hancock released a book named Pandemic Diaries.
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The Johnson government, and the Prime Minister himself, have been much criticised for their propensity for breaking rules, laws and conventions. Tim Bale argues that the government seems bent on freeing itself from the constraints that we used to take for granted, and has embraced populism in a reckless manner. He calls on ministers to…
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The Johnson government, and the Prime Minister himself, have been much criticised for their propensity for breaking rules, laws and conventions. Tim Bale argues that the government seems bent on freeing itself from the constraints that we used to take for granted, and has embraced populism in a reckless manner. He calls on ministers to reconsider their attitude to the rules of the constitutional system before it is too late.
I’m no expert on the constitution, the courts or the more arcane aspects of parliamentary procedure. But I can, I suppose, claim to know a bit about the Conservative Party. And I’m growing increasingly concerned.
The party has always been protean – shifting its shape, changing its colours like a chameleon to best suit the conditions in which it finds itself. But there have always been limits.
Margaret Thatcher may have been a disruptor, particularly when it came to undoing the post-war settlement to which her predecessors reluctantly agreed. Yet one always felt she had a basic respect for the conventions of representative democracy and the rule of law, even on those occasions where she and her governments pushed against them.
And the same went for her successors as Conservative premiers, John Major, David Cameron and Theresa May. But Boris Johnson? I’m not so sure.
Wherever you look now, you see a government seemingly bent on freeing itself from the constraints that we used to take for granted – and that, in some ways, our uncodified constitution and parliamentary conventions left us little choice but to take for granted.
The examples are legion. The foreseeably illegal prorogation of parliament. The insouciance over the possibility of breaking international law and effectively reneging over commitments so recently made on Northern Ireland. The point-blank refusal to take action against a Cabinet colleague found to have breached the Ministerial Code. The brushing off of court judgments concluding that a succession of ministers have acted unlawfully. The casual willingness to mislead parliament. The way that PMQs has become even more of a farce than it was before. And most recently the proposal to strip powers from the Electoral Commission, which comes on top of plans to insist on voters having photo ID to combat a problem that the evidence suggests doesn’t really exist.
You may scoff at the idea that we live in a post-truth era. But, when it comes to politics, I’m afraid we’re not just heading in that direction; we’ve have already arrived.
As a middle-aged history buff I’m naturally inordinately fond of telling people with all the patronising pomposity at my command that ‘We’ve been here before.’ But in this case I’m honestly not sure that we have. Respect for the rules of the game or, at the very least, the fear of getting caught breaking them no longer seems to be widespread in the upper echelons of government. Before Matt Hancock resigned as Health Secretary, the last Cabinet minister to fall on their proverbial sword was Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns, who went in early November 2019, his offence (endorsing a former aide as a candidate for the Welsh Assembly despite allegedly knowing he had played a part in the collapse of a rape trial) being so egregious that he really had no choice.
It is just about possible, of course, that Hancock being forced out might give some pause for thought. But I doubt it. It took an unknown whistleblower to go as far as to pass footage from a CCTV camera inside a ministerial office to a tabloid to catch the former Health Secretary in a ‘steamy clinch’ – and even then, it’s abundantly clear that he and the PM were initially convinced that he could and should hang on to his job.
It’s as if Johnson and his colleagues, buoyed up by a largely supportive (if occasionally tetchy) print media, a cowed broadcast media, and an apparently unassailable Commons majority, have realised that – except in the most blindingly obvious, ‘caught in the act and on camera’ cases – the emperor has no clothes. They’ve woken up to the fact that the checks and balances we’ve rather naively assumed would always impose limits on any government, Tory or Labour, can be ignored with little or nothing in the way of consequences, electoral or otherwise.
Given the traditional weakness of the opposition in the UK system, whether this continues to be the case will depend in large part on whether Conservative backbenchers are willing to go the way of their Republican counterparts across the pond – sticking to a Faustian pact with a populist leader that sees them saying and doing (and putting up with) pretty much anything that leader does, even when at least some of them know in their hearts that what he’s doing may be damaging the very democracy they purport to uphold.
True, there are a bunch of Tory MPs willing to challenge their government over COVID-19 regulations. But ask yourself this: how many of them are protesting purely to preserve civil liberties rather than because they’ve somehow convinced themselves that lockdowns don’t actually work?
According to John Stuart Mill, ‘Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.’ I know I can’t be the only one to worry that this might be precisely what is happening on the right of the political spectrum in Britain – just as it’s happened in other places previously and (as other contributors to this blog have noted) is happening again, both in East European countries like Hungary and Poland and in the United States of America.
The British Conservative Party, perhaps more so than most other mainstream centre-right parties in Europe, has long flirted with populism – even (her critics would doubtless say ‘especially’) under Margaret Thatcher. But it has never embraced it as fully, and as recklessly, as it seems to be doing right now. Let’s just hope it comes to its senses before it’s too late.
This post is one of a series of posts by speakers at the Unit’s conference on the government’s constitutional reform agenda. Professor Bale appeared during the final panel of the conference, entitled Rebalancing between parliament, executive and the courts, alongside Unit Director Meg Russell, former Conservative Attorney General Dominic Grieve and Peter Riddell, the Commissioner for Public Appointments. The panel is available free of charge on YouTube and on our podcast.
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The POLITICO English dictionary rounds up the words that entered the British political lexicon in the past year — for better or worse.
Rishi Sunak resists Boris Johnson pile-on at COVID inquiry
The UK prime minister faces difficult questions over the push to reopen Britain’s pandemic-ravaged economy.
Boris at the COVID inquiry: Key flashpoints
From the speed of lockdowns to a macho culture in Downing Street, Britain’s former prime minister faced a two-day grilling.
Matt Hancock’s cringe COVID inquiry grilling
From accidentally declaring a mayor dead to chummy texts with Boris Johnson, it was a fierce two-day grilling at the UK pandemic inquiry for the former health secretary.
British state ‘surprisingly bad’ at responding to COVID-19, inquiry hears
Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty blames sluggish government machine for U.K.’s pandemic failings.
Nigel Farage braves snakes and mud pits in ‘I’m a Celebrity’ jungle debut
The former Brexit Party leader was mostly untroubled by the reptiles
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Britain’s COVID-19 inquiry exposes the rot at the heart of Whitehall
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Boris Johnson asked scientists if COVID could be killed by hairdryer up nose, ex-aide claims
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Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain’s evidence rocked Westminster Tuesday.
Useless fuckpigs: How Dominic Cummings described Boris Johnson’s Cabinet
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Nigel Farage says he’ll be fine in reality TV jungle after dealing with EU ‘snakes’
Brexiteer ‘seriously’ considering a stint on ‘I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here.’
Westminster’s most gruesome rivalries
POLITICO celebrates Halloween with a spook-tacular guide to the SW1 feuds that just won’t stay in the grave.
Top civil servant’s damning verdict on Boris Johnson
‘The team can’t deliver anything under these circumstances,’ message from Simon Case reads.
Rishi Sunak is attempting a leadership reset. He may be too late
The UK prime minister hopes to revive his flagging fortunes this fall with a government overhaul.
Why the UK’s economic upturn is a false dawn for the Tories
It looks like a recession is averted. But will that be enough?
The Westminster-Big Tech revolving door keeps spinning
The US tech giants’ lobbying teams include players from across the political spectrum.
Ex-UK health chief blames WHO for Britain’s lack of pandemic planning
Matt Hancock tells inquiry UK had planned for ‘the consequence of a disaster’ rather than trying to halt or mitigate one.
Every British MP suspended by their party since 2019
Westminster’s unwanted: endless scandals in British politics mean an accidental new bloc now outnumbers the Liberal Democrats.
UK’s Matt Hancock told to say sorry after lobbying MP watchdog
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Deputy PMQs scorecard: Please make it stop as Dowden and Rayner stand-in
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Construction and housing were dealt a new set of ministers yesterday, after David Cameron undertook the most extensive reshuffle of his government since coming to power four years ago.
The reshuffle, 10 months out from the general election, saw business minister Michael Fallon, who had held the construction and energy briefs, appointed defence secretary, in place of Philip Hammond, who was appointed foreign secretary.
Fallon was replaced by Matthew Hancock in the business department, who now takes the construction portfolio and, like Fallon, will also lead on energy in the Department of Energy and Climate Change. Hancock will also now attend cabinet.
Hancock, MP for West Suffolk, was previously skills minister in the business department. He was elected to parliament in 2010 and was previously an advisor to shadow chancellor George Osborne, as well as an economist at the Bank of England.
Meanwhile, planning minister Nick Boles was moved to a new role straddling the business and education departments, with his planning brief handed to Brandon Lewis, who was promoted from junior minister to minister of state in the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG).
Lewis was also given lead responsibility for housing in DCLG, taking over from junior minister Kris Hopkins, who was only given the housing brief in October.
The appointment of Lewis as housing minister means the brief has now been restored to senior ministerial level, after it was down graded to junior ministerial level during the prime minister’s previous reshuffle.
Sarah McMonagle, head of external affairs at the Federation of Master Builders, said Hancock’s invitation to attend cabinet was a positive move as it showed the prime minister had recognised “how important our industry is in terms of delivering the government’s economic, social and environmental objectives”.
However, she added: “We hope that Hancock does not repeat the mistakes made by his predecessor Michael Fallon who did not make the most of this unique position that straddles both construction and energy policy.
“More specifically, we felt he didn’t do enough in terms of driving forward the retrofit agenda, an area where government still has a mountain to climb.
“Also when we compare Fallon to his predecessor Mark Prisk, who tirelessly worked with our sector in both government and opposition, he was not the passionate champion he could have been.”
There were also changes in the education department, with Nicky Morgan appointed education secretary after Michael Gove was moved from the department to become the government’s chief whip.
Morgan, MP for Loughborough, was part of the Conservative’s 2010 intake. She is a former corporate lawyer and is considered a Cameron loyalist and a safe pair of hands within the party.
In other changes in education, Nick Gibb has returned to the department as schools minister, a role he previously held before being ejected in David Cameron’s 2012 reshuffle.
David Cameron said Gibb would work with Morgan “to ensure no let up in education reforms’.
Meanwhile, at the Department of Energy and Climate Change, energy minister Greg Barker stepped down, with his role leading on the Green Deal and energy efficiency taken on by new junior minister Amber Rudd.
Rudd, MP for Hastings and Rye, is part of the Conservative’s 2010 intake
Barker, MP for Bexhill and Battle, was one of the Conservative’s key modernising figures and was, famously, the minister who posed with David Cameron in the Arctic eight years ago, as part of the Tory leader’s efforts to reposition the party on the climate change debate.
He launched the Green Deal in 2012 and has been responsible for its roll-out, but has been criticised for the slow take up of the flagship energy efficiency scheme.
He said he would also be stepping down from parliament at the next election.
Paul King, chief executive of the UK Green Building Council, said Barker had been “a tireless champion of energy efficiency”.
He added: “He will leave a big gap in the Tory party - it’s difficult not to fear for the future of blue-green politics.”
“This is one of the most important briefs in government and Amber Rudd can’t simply run out the clock to the election.”
The appointment of Morgan and Gibb means the construction industry has a new set of ministers in the Department for Education, as well as a new construction minister in the business department, a new housing and planning minister in the communities department and a new lead on energy efficiency in DECC.
Mark Robinson, group chief Executive of public procurement body Scape, said the number of changes was worrying. “Re-arranging the deck chairs can bring new ideas and creativity, but my concern is that the sheer number of changes across construction, education, housing, energy and planning, will leave us rudderless and drifting until the next election, as the incoming ministers try to grasp the complex challenges our industry is facing.”
“The UK economy might be on the mend but figures show that the construction industry has not yet fully recovered from the recession.”
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After leaving Christ’s, Hancock briefly worked for a backbench Conservative MP, before moving to London to work as an economist specialising in the housing market for the Bank of England. In 2005, he became an economic adviser to the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, later becoming Osborne's chief of staff.
In the 2010 General Election, Hancock was elected as the MP for West Suffolk. Later in 2010, and until 2012, he was elected to the Public Accounts Committee. In 2013, Hancock joined the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills as the Minister of State for Skills and Enterprise. In 2014, he was appointed Minister of State for Business and Enterprise.
In 2015, Hancock became Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, and also headed David Cameron's "earn or learn" taskforce which aimed to have every young person either in employment or education from April 2017.
After Theresa May became Prime Minister in 2016, Hancock became Minister of State for Digital and Culture in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. In the 2018 cabinet reshuffle, he was appointed Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. In 2018, Hancock launched his own smartphone app – the first MP to do so. The app was meant as a social network to provide his constituents with information and give the wider public updates on his role in the cabinet.
In 2018, Hancock was appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. In 2019, Hancock announced that he intended to run for Conservative Party leadership after Theresa May announced that she would be stepping down, but ultimately withdrew his candidacy. Hancock kept his role as Health Secretary when Boris Johnson became Prime Minister in 2019 and was in this role during the COVID-19 pandemic. In August 2020, Hancock began making plans to merge Public Health England and NHS Test and Trace into a new body called the National Institute for Health Protection.
In June 2021, Matt Hancock resigned as Secretary of State after admitting to breaching social distancing guidelines.
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Matt Hancock MP interview 2018. The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, MP for West Suffolk talks to Alastair Campbell about being dyslexic, Theresa May and a Brexit second referendum.
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It says everything about the rise of Matt Hancock that I had to interview him not once, but twice. When GQ first approached the former aide to George Osborne, the MP for West Suffolk was already the secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport (DCMS) – and with his own app, albeit much mocked, to boot. The minister, who has a background in his family’s tech business, had been appointed just six months before, while still in his thirties. But it wasn’t long after our interview that he was promoted to his second cabinet post in the reshuffle that followed Boris Johnson and David Davis flouncing out of cabinet, this time as secretary of state for health and social care. With Theresa May unlikely to challenge Thatcher, Major or Cameron for PM longevity and Johnson surely now a flush so busted that no political plumber could repair it, Hancock was suddenly one of the names in the frame in the Tory succession stakes.
And so, this interview took place over two sessions: first while he was at DCMS (and his somewhat evasive answers on Johnson now look rather smart given what happened since) and then again a few weeks after he got his feet under what for a long time was Jeremy Hunt’s desk.
A Remainer who now argues Brexit presents great opportunities and cannot under any circumstances be reversed, a Cameroon who praises the leadership of May, a free-trading Atlanticist who finds it hard to say a good word about Donald Trump, he is not easy to pigeonhole. But, in the main, he gives reasonably straight answers and even when he doesn’t, you get a sense of what he thinks: not a fan of Johnson; not a fan of Trump.
But if news is what you didn’t know until you asked the questions, perhaps his talking for the first time about his dyslexia will command some attention and begin to flesh out that thing most would-be leaders like to have in today’s world: a “backstory”. We start, though, with my back-handed compliment to the first Tory cabinet minister who had the balls to say yes to my request for an interview.
Right now it is mission critical that we hold both together, because the alternatives are a complete disaster
Part one: 27 June
Alastair Campbell: So, Matt Hancock. What do these people all have in common: Theresa May, David Cameron, George Osborne, Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Philip Hammond and David Davis?
Matt Hancock: They have all been in Conservative cabinets recently.
They have also all refused to do interviews with me.
That reminds me of a great story Amber Rudd tells. When she was first elected she was asked to go on Newsnight and she said, “Look, I know you have a list. Go to the bottom of the list and if you can’t find anyone I will do it.” And they said, “You are the bottom of the list.”
I assume you’re doing this because there is a complete breakdown of cabinet collective responsibility. You all think May’s days are numbered, so there is a lot of jockeying for profile going on.
We have collective responsibility.
It has to be the biggest rabble we have ever known...
Lots of people say politics is about individualism and egos. I happen to think government is best operated as a team.
When you have a senior member of the cabinet utter “Fuck business”, do you not feel the conversation should have gone with May saying, “Boris, did you really say ‘Fuck business’?” and he says, “Let me explain,” and she says, “There is no explanation. Just go”?
Well, the truth is that anybody who is a Conservative knows that the way you generate wealth and ultimately all the taxes that pay for public services is through business, people coming together to make something of their lives and to create jobs.
So we shouldn’t fuck them.
Absolutely not. And the Conservative Party is the party of business.
So how can he be foreign secretary when he says what he said?
It is totally unacceptable to use that sort of language round business.
If it is unacceptable, he shouldn’t be there.
Well, yeah... I can see where people are coming from. I am not going to say that, but this matters to me: I am in politics because of business. I grew up in a small family business, a tech business...
I was speaking to a conference of head teachers last week – 450 of them. I asked them, “Do you think Theresa May is a good leader?” How many hands do you think went up?
I don’t know. I wasn’t there.
Zero. You must hear that as well?
I think in the circumstances we are in, with the need to get the best deal on Brexit, she is actually the best person to do that. I really believe this, because she has an ability to reach across the Conservative Party.
It’s all about party, not the country.
Holding a government together is about holding the party together as well. And right now it is mission critical that we hold both together, because the alternatives are a complete disaster. One of the things holding both together is the thought of Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell and the catastrophe that would be for the nation.
But it is because of a lack of anything else. This has got to be the worst set of political leaders we have ever had.
That is certainly true of the Labour Party.
Both sides. Jeremy Corbyn got eight votes in my 450, by the way. We are not in a good place on leadership at a time the country needs it most.
It is a difficult time, but the crucial thing is being able to hold that ship together and get the best deal possible.
Going back on Brexit would undermine trust in politics for a generation
Murdoch: force for good or bad?
He has been an incredible force for good. What he has done to drive journalism and investigative journalism, though sometimes uncomfortable for us in politics...
Fox News: force for good or bad?
Well, I, erm, I’m glad we have got balance in broadcasting here.
Murdoch is all about non-balance, and you can’t say he has been good overall for standards in journalism.
His innovations in journalism have been incredible. You have to look at his whole career.
Zuckerberg: force for good or bad?
Undoubtedly good, but...
So Zuckerberg gets a “but”, but Murdoch doesn’t?
The “but” for Zuckerberg is that he needs to understand and implement a change in philosophy from this attitude of “let everyone get connected and the world will be a better place”, which is a lovely libertarian attitude, but it is not true. It might be true for 95 per cent of people, but there are some bad actors out there and you have to mitigate that. In the offline world we have that balance in place and in the online world we don’t.
I saw nothing from Zuckerberg in those hearings [to Congress] to suggest he has the capacity to change the philosophy. And on these issues of tax, regulation, there is nothing clear to me from governments as to how they would do it.
We can do that and there is a role for the UK to lead here. On tax, there are undoubtedly ways you can change the tax system. Of course, Facebook, as a public company, would get sued by shareholders if it didn’t try to minimise tax paid. The tax systems were set up for an analogue age and these are digital companies. The fact the goods and services cost zero to produce, they can put the profits wherever they like.
Google: force for good or bad?
Undoubtedly good.
Amazon?
Same. They put money in people’s pockets because they make things cheaper. They create audiences for smaller business.
People don’t like talking about weakness, but my dyslexia has helped me
Is there not a danger the tech giants are the new oligarchs? What came across with the Zuckerberg hearings is that the politicians didn’t really understand the world he is in and that gives him a massive advantage.
Yeah. I think the blinding with science is a serious problem and it takes people who understand the technology but also get the politics and the need of society to be in control to say, “This far and no further.” And I think there is a self-confidence we need, as a body politic, as a society, to say the legitimate rules we have as a society are set collectively, ultimately through parliament. That is how we do it in Britain. There has been this attitude for too long that because the companies are global and people do not understand the technology, we can’t do anything about it and I think that is wrong.
What about mental health? We sort of think social media is having a detrimental impact on the mental health of young people in particular, but we don’t really know.
Social media and technology more broadly. Yes, this includes the law, but a lot of it is about society responding as well. For instance, should head teachers ban phones in the classroom? I think they should. But technology can be an enormous enabler. I’ll give you one example. I have never really talked about this before, but I am dyslexic and I didn’t find that out at school. I found out at university, when a tutor said, “You are good orally, but you cannot get it down on paper.” I think if Microsoft had invented spellcheck five years later it would have had a massive negative impact on my career. By the time I got to the workplace, everything was done on word processors and that solved my very serious spelling problem. I have never talked about this because it’s a weakness, and people don’t like talking about weakness, it makes you feel vulnerable, but with the help of technology, dyslexia helps you think laterally because you have to work your way round problems.
How does it affect you now?
I am a very slow reader. I have to have things written in a pithy way. Upside is I write in a pithy way as well. It has caused a couple of disasters. I was the agent in the 2001 election in Guildford. You might remember the Tories lost Guildford in 2001.
A very good day for the world.
Nick St Aubyn, the sitting MP, wrote his election address and asked me to turn it into a leaflet that went to 50,000 people. It was only after it had been sent out that we noticed a subheading that was meant to say we want to “unite” the community, but I had written we want to “untie” the community. So my dyslexia has got me into trouble, but I feel I can talk about it because I want to say to everyone who is dyslexic that the technology exists to help. The most important thing was being diagnosed.
Trump: force for good or bad?
He is the president of the United States and I respect the office enormously.
Right. Trump, force for good or bad?
I thought Obama was an absolutely brilliant president.
Donald Trump, force for good or bad?
I believe in the integrity of the values of the West. I find it hard to criticise the US president because I respect the presidency of the US and the US is a huge force for good.
Is there not a danger that, for reasons to do with the special relationship and all that, we normalise and tolerate things that are fundamentally not at all at one with our values?
No. I think that the danger of the West splintering by just constantly having a go at each other is much more serious than the short-term pleasure I might have articulating what I think about certain individuals.
But this is why Brexit is so difficult. Part of the West...
The West is much more than just the US and the EU. It is a series of self-governing nation states in a whole range of multilateral agreements inside a rules-based framework. We’ve chosen not to be within one of them.
At a time when the president of the United States is sniffy about Nato.
I am happy to criticise decisions of the US administration, but not go personal. But the bigger picture is this: liberal values that put the individual at the core of our politics. And when we limit that freedom, we are doing it to protect people. That’s the Enlightenment philosophy. It is critical to the future of the world; it is at risk.
At risk from Vladimir Putin, Trump, other countries in Europe.
We need to defend it.
How can we do that when we are ripping ourselves out of this thing that has represented those values pretty well for a generation and more?
But it has also been a pooling of sovereignty and, crucially, we are a democracy. I campaigned to remain in the EU, as you know, and I felt strongly about it. But I also said before the vote that we would respect the result. I said that because I thought we were going to win, but also because I respect democracy more than any individual decision. So we have got to – and this is true as well of you, Alastair – respect the result, because the impact of going back on it would be catastrophic for trust, for the institutions. Those people who voted for Leave, and especially those who feel very strongly about it, would have all of their fears about the establishment confirmed if there was a second referendum and the result was to go back in. That would undermine trust in politics for a generation.
But you, as an MP who has to vote for the deal, if you do so, knowing it is going to make the country poorer, weaker – and in every deal being looked at those things seem pretty certain – that is equally a big danger to democracy.
Firstly, I don’t accept the premise. I think we are going to get a good deal.
Every deal on offer is going to make us poorer. You know that.
But on the other side of the ledger is the enormous downside of overruling a referendum when I have pledged to respect the result. I am not going to do that.
That also means, then, if you get no deal or a terrible deal we have to do it anyway. So the whole process is pointless.
We get the best deal that we can and then Britain is going to succeed, because there is something bigger than Brexit and that is a technological revolution. And the countries that succeed, it is not their international arrangements, it is [being at] the forefront of tech that drives their economy and ultimately drives geopolitics.
The second referendum would be a huge mistake for this country
And every assessment says the economy gets weaker.
We can be at the cutting edge of some unbelievably transformative technologies that are bigger than anything we have had for 100 years. It gives us the opportunity to be incredibly successful.
Only if we have the right people, innovations, expertise.
Yes. And we can do all of that. We have relaxed the rules on visas to encourage tech entrepreneurs.
The message we are putting out worldwide is this place is shutting down.
We need to work with the whole world.
We can do that now.
And in the future. That is my point. So let’s get out there and work globally to make a success of it, because the alternative of trying to undermine and reverse a decision...
That is the only argument left: will of the people.
I have made it from day one.
The People’s Vote?
The second referendum would be a huge mistake for this country.
And if Brexit is a bigger mistake?
It is very hard to see a bigger mistake than saying to more than half of the people who voted, “You got it wrong. We are going to ask you again.”
Fine with being out of the single market and the customs union?
What I want to see is the lowest possible barriers to trade, but there is also this upside, that there has been in this country a sense of being done to and us not being sovereign for a long time.
You don’t think Brexit is part of the drift to right-wing populism?
Lots of people who have that view campaigned and agitated for Brexit. But I think it has been a pressure valve. There are still far-right people, but they don’t have any purchase as they have in other countries and I put that down to the surprise a lot of those people have that when the country voted for Brexit we said we believe in democracy and we are going to do it... I haven’t persuaded you yet, have I?
No. Very depressed.
We just announced £20 billion for the NHS.
As a way of saying “we’re not just about Brexit” and the “Brexit dividend” fell apart within 24 hours.
You’re overanalysing.
And Hammond says to the rest of you, “Nothing for defence. DCMS, cut your budgets...” N’est-ce pas?
Finding £20bn for the NHS and with the discussion of where tax should rise... [is] important.
Was breaking your manifesto OK?
[The Conservatives] are clearly the party of lower taxes.
Part two: 4 August
Is cabinet a better place since Boris Johnson and David Davis went?
There is definitely less leaking. We are still grappling with big issues.
Do you not think they quit because, as Brexit architects, it dawned on them it cannot be done?
They have to set out their own reasons for leaving cabinet. I don’t agree with them, because the proposals on the table reflect where we are, the EU is beginning to engage on them. I believe we can get a good deal and I am confident we will.
One of the first things I did was increase mental health support in schools
So you don’t share my view that the reason the Chequers deal fell apart is that it is incoherent, inconsistent and unacceptable to the Europeans?
No. I think a good deal is in the interests of both sides and that gives me confidence we can get there.
Is there not a part of you thinking, “I just wish we weren’t doing this”?
You have to face life as it is, not how you want to be. It is happening. We have to make the best of it.
Steve Bannon. What the hell are the likes of Johnson, Gove and Jacob Rees-Mogg doing consorting with him?
You’ll have to ask them.
If Bannon called you and asked for a meeting to discuss Tory ideas...
He hasn’t.
Do you think Johnson is finished as potential leader
There isn’t a vacancy.
Don’t give me the bullshit answer.
There isn’t a vacancy. He has been the clear leader of the Brexit side of the argument for some time.
Is that good for him or bad for him?
Just a statement of fact. I’m not getting into this. The right leader for today is...
Chris Grayling...
[Laughs.] Theresa May.
What was the Chequers meeting like?
We had a debate about substance and then we all discussed how we take the message out. It wasn’t till the weekend that people started considering their positions.
Did you sense it being historic?
It felt like a big moment, a move to a position you can see the EU engaging with.
Meanwhile, we’re talking of stockpiling food and medicines.
One of the first things I did as health secretary was accelerate the preparation for no deal. It is not the likeliest outcome and not the one I want, but we have to prepare for all eventualities. It means ensuring the companies that supply to the NHS have the right level of supplies.
So you are confident May will get her insulin and I will get my antidepressants whatever happens?
I am confident.
Making sure we support the services that help people stay healthy is a critical part of the long-term plan
Mark Carney has said the economy has already suffered, we have gone from fastest- to slowest-growing economy in the G7 and no deal would be a huge hit.
The economic risks I expected have not materialised in the same way. We have record levels of investment, record levels of employment, a wall of investment waiting to come in if we get a good deal. Of course I want to see a good deal. I am a pro-business Conservative. And there is a wider thing as well. The vote was not just about economics.
How did you feel when May moved you from culture to health?
Surprised – though the threshold for surprise in our politics in the past couple of years is pretty high. I was enjoying DCMS, especially the digital, but the responsibility to be secretary of state for health and social care is a heavy one and I’m enjoying it.
There is something weird about our system that one day you’re Mr Supposed To Know Everything About Culture, then you’re Mr Health the next.
The system ensures you always have high-quality experts around you, especially in health – people in the department and the NHS. Then the politician can decide on direction and communicate it, has the ability to run a department. So with these experts...
I thought Gove said we’d had enough of experts.
I disagree with him on that. Also, having spent several years on digital, I can bring that experience to bear on health care and improving the lives of people working in the NHS. The three priority themes I set out are workforce, technology, prevention.
A lot of the staff feel put upon.
They are not valued enough for what they do and also have outdated working practices that technology can help improve. The opportunities are huge – artificial intelligence in research and cures, rostering, better integration with social care – making it easier for patients to look after their own health. The prevention side is so important. We can save in the long run if we spend more to keep people out of hospital. That is the way to ensure the NHS is sustainable.
Is your commitment to the principles of the NHS rock solid?
Yes, I am in enthusiastic agreement with the fundamental tenets, treatment free at the point of delivery, regardless of ability to pay.
And that system can stay long-term?
It is sustainable so long as we ensure that the NHS uses the resources it gets and integrates with other parts of social provision, especially social care.
We must transform for 21st-century care. Tech is a big part of that
I was disappointed you didn’t make more of mental health in your first speech.
Evidence is increasingly clear that physical and mental are linked and all three of my themes relate to mental health. You need a high-quality, well-motivated workforce, better use of technology and early intervention. This is as true in mental health as in cancer or anything else.
So you can promise that, with funds tight, mental health services will not take their usual place as the easiest to cut?
Making sure we support the services that help people stay healthy is a critical part of the long-term plan and is especially important in mental health. One of the first things I did was increase mental health support in schools, an area I had already engaged in due to the impact of social media.
In the scheme of things, how much is £20bn?
Twenty billion over five years means that we can guarantee the future of the NHS. The task in writing the long-term plan is to be as transformative as possible. It can’t be swallowed up just by keeping things stable, but we must transform for 21st-century care. Technology is a big part of that and over time can lead to big savings – savings on costs as well as lives.
But it’s not a “Brexit dividend”, is it?
Well... [Pauses. Laughs.] There will be money we currently give into Europe that we will be able to spend on the NHS. But this is not the only part of it.
Yes, not a Brexit dividend. Thank you.
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Matt Hancock was a strong contender for the adjective “beleaguered” even before grainy pictures of him snogging an old college friend he’d employed at taxpayers’ expense were splashed all over the Sun on Friday morning.
When the Queen was filmed making small talk with Boris Johnson as their weekly audiences resumed in person on Wednesday, she told the prime minister she had been speaking to “your secretary of state for health, poor man”.
In recent days, Hancock had also had to brush off private messages from the prime minister published by Dominic Cummings in which he was derided as “totally fucking hopeless” and deny lying to colleagues so frequently and outrageously that the politically neutral cabinet secretary wanted him sacked.
Defending himself against those allegations in the House of Commons last month, he said: “I have been straight with people in public and private throughout. Every day I have got up and asked: ‘What must I do to protect life?’ That is the job of a health secretary in a pandemic.”
Friday’s leaked pictures suggest he also had time to think about other matters – yet, like Cummings when his Barnard Castle jaunt emerged, Hancock has opted to try to tough it out, apologising for breaching social distancing guidelines and asking for privacy to deal with “this personal matter”.
Colleagues confirmed that was very much in character. Politicians don’t tend to be burdened with crushing self-doubt, but even among MPs, Hancock is renowned for his Teflon-coated self-regard.
And even in a cabinet that includes Gavin Williamson, rehabilitated by Johnson after allegedly leaking state security secrets to the Telegraph, and Priti Patel, brought back after organising secret meetings in Israel, he stands out as an extraordinary survivor.
Hancock’s backstory is hardly an unusual one for a Conservative minister. His parents set up a small tech business, and he studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford, where he took a first-class degree, before going to Cambridge to do a master’s in economics.
It was at Oxford where he met his wife, Martha – and also Gina Coladangelo, the woman he has been snapped embracing in his Department of Health office.
She told Radio 4’s Profile that they were “close friends of more than 20 years” who had met when Hancock was reporting on sport for the student radio station Oxygen FM and she was reading the news.
Coladangelo revealed that Hancock was sometimes economical with the truth – saying he once overslept when he was meant to be covering a big rugby match at Twickenham, and gave his report from a phone box outside a pub.
After university, Hancock became an economist at the Bank of England before being taken on as an economic adviser by the young shadow chancellor George Osborne, eventually becoming his chief of staff. Together with another adviser, Rupert Harrison, who had been Hancock’s contemporary at Oxford, the pair successfully built up the economic narrative that Labour had failed to “fix the roof while the sun was shining”.
As their promise of a “long-term economic plan” swept Gordon Brown out of Downing Street at the May 2010 general election, Hancock arrived in the House of Commons as the MP for West Suffolk, then aged just 31. He was made a junior business minister in the coalition government in 2013.
Three years later, Hancock was on the remain side with his old boss during the Brexit referendum campaign. But unlike Osborne and Cameron, after the results came in, Hancock remained in Westminster, as the political shockwaves unleashed by the result continued to reverberate – and he has been on the frontbench ever since.
He had a short-lived stint as culture secretary from January 2018 – memorably videoing himself trying out the sport of parkour.
Just six months later, Theresa May made him health secretary, when Boris Johnson resigned as foreign secretary over her Brexit deal and Jeremy Hunt was given that role.
When May had to accept defeat and step aside after failing to persuade MPs to back her Brexit deal for a third time, Hancock fancied himself as her potential successor – or at least saw political advantage in having a shot at the top job.
He launched his campaign with the slogan Let’s Move Forward, handing out themed phone chargers to journalists attending a slick launch event. His backers included David Lidington, May’s serious and strongly pro-European de facto deputy, who has since left parliament.
Hancock received 20 votes from MPs in the first round. He then dropped out and later threw his weight behind the increasingly unstoppable-looking Johnson campaign, despite having been a remainer.
Hancock said at the time he had received assurances from Johnson that he would govern as a one-nation Conservative, and he praised the now prime minister lavishly in a series of media appearances.
It worked: Johnson kept him on as health secretary despite chucking out many other senior remainers and other heavyweight figures from the May years. Nine months later, Hancock found himself at the eye of the storm as the Covid crisis hit.
Since the outset of the pandemic, he has come under intense pressure, in particular over the procurement of personal protective equipment for health workers, the discharging of hospital patients into care homes and the shortcomings of the test-and-trace system.
He contracted Covid at the same time as the prime minister and other senior government figures, self-isolating at home. Johnson was later said to have joked that it’s “all right for you thinnies,” after Hancock bounced back from the virus quickly, while the prime minister found himself in intensive care.
While Johnson in hospital, Hancock was part of a “quad” of senior ministers – with Rishi Sunak, Dominic Raab and Michael Gove – who took over day-to-day decision-making.
He has tended to be among the more cautious cabinet ministers on questions of border control and lifting lockdown restrictions – arguably putting him on the right side of history when it came to making judgments about how tough to be in tackling the virus.
But he has faced mounting criticism over allegations of cronyism in handing out contracts during the scramble to procure medical equipment – including one that went to the former landlord of his local pub, the Cock Inn in Thurlow.
In recent weeks Hancock has been attacked relentlessly by Cummings, who launched yet another excoriating blogpost on Friday with the subheading: “how we got Hancocked”.
When the NHS England chief, Simon Stevens, was asked in a recent Sky News interview whether he thought the health secretary was “hopeless”, he grinned, declined to answer and slowly edged out of shot, as his aide was heard to say that the question hadn’t been agreed.
Johnson gave Hancock political air cover on Friday, perhaps not surprisingly for a prime minister who hates personal confrontation and can hardly lecture colleagues about their private lives.
Hancock has been a useful lightning rod throughout the pandemic, loyally going out to make the government’s case in endless media appearances through the toughest days of the darkest lockdowns. No 10 may worry what he would say if he were unleashed from collective responsibility to tell his own version of the story of the past two years.
But Tory MPs are becoming increasingly concerned that by throwing a protective ring around Hancock, Johnson is just contributing to the nagging sense among even some traditional Conservative voters that this is a sleazy government whose senior players believe it’s one rule for them and another for the rest of us.
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At the age of 35 Prime Minister David Cameron invited Matt to attend the UK Cabinet – becoming the third youngest person to do so since the Second World War – as Minister for Business and Energy, and then as Postmaster General, where he was responsible for the efficiency and digitalisation of government.
This included the digitisation of many citizen-facing services, and the ensuing efficiencies and reforms of civil service terms led to the smallest civil service since the war. Matt launched the new National Cyber Security Centre, a model that has been replicated by many countries around the world.
During the 2016 referendum on the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union, Matt supported the Remain campaign. Subsequently appointed as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, he navigated the passage of key legislation such as the UK’s Data Protection Act, positioning the UK as a global tech investment hub and become the third biggest recipient of tech investment in the world, after the US and China.
In 2018, Prime Minister Theresa May asked Matt to become Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. Understanding his background in data and technology, Matt was asked to modernise the NHS and unleash the power of UK health data. As Health Secretary, Matt was responsible for a budget of over £200bn, and for 1.4 million NHS employees – the fifth largest organisation in the world – as well as the provision of social care and health protection. Matt developed, launched, and implemented the NHS Long Term Plan, a reform programme to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the NHS.
Matt spearheaded groundbreaking initiatives during his tenure, including the creation of the NHS app, which revolutionised access to health data for citizens and enhanced data interoperability. Additionally, he established NHSX as the innovation hub within the NHS, furthering technological advancements and driving efficiency.
His reform programme included the first-ever NHS workforce plan, hiring a Chief People Officer for the first time, and successfully settling the junior doctor strike, which had been ongoing for many years.
When Theresa May announced she would be standing down in 2019, Matt stood to succeed her as Prime Minister, coming fifth in the race, behind eventual winner, Boris Johnson, who reappointed him as Health Secretary. Matt’s commitment to hire 50,000 more nurses, and build 40 new hospitals, were at the centre of the Conservative’s successful 2019 election campaign.
As Secretary of State for Health and Social Care during the coronavirus pandemic, Matt was responsible for steering the country, the NHS, and the UK health system through the most significant global health crisis in a century.
From leading Downing Street press conferences and chairing COBR meetings to liaising with international leaders and overseeing the world’s most successful vaccination programme, Matt was at the forefront of government, working closely with the Prime Minister, as well as the UK’s Chief Medical Officer, to decide how the world’s sixth largest economy would respond to the virus.
Matt founded the UK Health Security Agency and was at the forefront of the UK government's communication with the public, fronting the daily press conference, and answering questions in Parliament. He was at the forefront of global pandemic response coordination and chaired the weekly G7 Health Ministers pandemic response meeting.
Matt chaired the UK Vaccine Delivery Board, which in December 2020 delivered the world’s first clinically approved vaccine for COVID-19, delivering more than 3 billion doses to 183 countries around the world.
Through the UK’s commitment to ensuring global fair access, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is estimated to have saved 6.3 million lives in the first year of the global vaccine rollout – the most out of all the vaccines in circulation at the time.
Matt’s leadership extends beyond the Covid-19 response. He championed initiatives to strengthen the NHS, increased funding for mental health services, and improved access to healthcare for all UK citizens. Under Matt’s leadership, the NHS began its digital transformation, harnessing technology to improve patient care, streamline operations and enhance efficiency.
Since stepping down from government in June 2021, Matt has championed the early identification of dyslexia, as well as other neurodivergent conditions, building on his own personal experience. Last year, Matt founded the Accessible Learning Foundation (ALF) and in 2024 introduced the Neurodivergent Conditions (Screening and Teacher Training) Bill into the UK Parliament. He continues to work closely with the ALF trustees.
Outside of politics, Matt has a strong interest in technology and its potential to benefit society. He is particularly passionate about advancements in artificial intelligence and health technology and explores ways to use tech innovations for social good.
In his spare time, Matt enjoys spending time with his three children, playing cricket, horse racing, running, and participating in physical challenges. Matt is an adventurer. In 2005 Matt broke the world record for the most northerly game of cricket ever played, pulling on the pads at the North Pole. Matt has completed the London marathon twice and is the first MP since the First World War to win a horse race under rules, when he crossed the line first in a charity race in Newmarket, in 2012.
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The Triumph of Cynicism:
The Suppression of Leveson II
Ian Lucas
Writer and consultant, former MP for Wrexham (2001 – 2019)
Member of the Committee for Culture, Media and Sport, and Business Minister
PART ONE: The Commons Agrees – for now.
Members of Parliament speak with one voice rarely. One of those occasions was in 2011 when the House of Commons Chamber listened intently to the Prime Minister, David Cameron, recount the chilling history of the hacking of teenager Milly Dowler’s telephone following her disappearance and murder and what the Government he led intended to do about it:
“Clearly there are two pieces of work that have to be done. First, we need a full investigation into wrongdoing in the press and the police…. Secondly, we need a review of regulation of the press…..after listening carefully, we have decided that the best way to proceed is with one inquiry, but in two parts.”
This was to become the Leveson Inquiry and no-one in the Chamber that day disagreed.
From the start, this was a subject of special interest to me. Years previously, before I entered Parliament, I had acted as a lawyer for Trevor Rees-Jones, the bodyguard who was the sole survivor of the car crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales. I had seen Trevor, a victim of crime, seriously injured and unconscious in hospital, catapulted into the eye of a media storm. Those close to him, concerned for his life, were media targets too. Their lives were invaded by a press hungry for any personal information. Trevor’s family was treated as public property, with no regard to the impact on their lives, despite their intense fears as to Trevor’s fate.
When I saw Milly Dowler’s family in news reports, the Rees-Jones’s came to my mind. Then I saw that the unanimity in the House of Commons Chamber that day, created by the actions of newspapers lacking any moral perspective, was a unique moment. We could try to make sure that, in future, the ordeals of the Dowler family like Rees-Jones’ before them, would not be repeated.
I had seen the power of the tabloid press in the UK since my election in 2001. Even with very comfortable Parliamentary majorities, the Labour Government had worked constantly to keep newspapers, particularly News International, onside. Any policy pronouncement which alienated “The Sun” in particular was viewed by the Labour Government as reckless. Its endorsement of Tony Blair prior to 1997 had been perceived and presented as a seismic moment by a Labour Party scarred by 18 years in Opposition and frustrated by a largely hostile set of newspapers.
For me, this explained why it was that, despite Sun Editor Rebekah Brooks’ admission to a Parliamentary Committee in 2004 that her newspaper had made illegal payments to police officers, nothing had happened. There was too much to lose – especially the precarious support of the largest selling tabloid in the UK.
I saw what that meant in 2009. A weak Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, was at the Labour Party Conference, working desperately to shore up support and inject confidence into a Party facing defeat at the General Election to come. I was in the room when the Brown team heard the news that Labour had dreaded since the 1997 endorsement – The Sun was shifting its support to David Cameron’s Conservatives and was doing so at a time to inflict maximum damage to the Prime Minister. A chill went round the room as I saw in action the political power News International had at that time.
The Dowler affair was so important because it showed that, despite all the political power of News International, that power had limits. Where a single, bereaved family had lost a child, the public would not forgive indefensible acts against that family. For any political party, whilst public attention was focussed on the Dowlers’ plight, the cost of supporting any news organisation responsible for such actions was too high.
I believe that it was for that reason, in the febrile atmosphere of the House of Commons Chamber in 2011, David Cameron knew that he had no alternative other than to open the Pandora’s Box that was the Leveson Inquiry. What no-one knew at the time was that, before all of its contents were revealed, the lid on Pandora’s Box would be slammed shut again.
PART TWO: Preparing the Ground
Promises were made. Most importantly, they were made to the Dowler family and to the other victims of phone hacking. They were made, eye to eye, by the Prime Minister to the victims. They were made in Parliament as well as in person. But the history of the Leveson Inquiry is of the gradual resiling from those promises until finally, they were broken. An unanswered question is was the intention to break these promises from the start?
On July 13 2011, however, Prime Minister Cameron was clear:
“We have decided that the best way to proceed is with one inquiry, but in two parts.”
Part One of the Leveson Inquiry proceeded on this basis, with the premise that there was to be, after criminal trials had concluded, in Cameron’s words:
“A full investigation into wrongdoing in the press and the police.”
The first indication that this was changing was in January 2015, junior Police Minister Mike Penning said:
“The Government has been clear that a decision on whether to undertake Part 2 of the Leveson Inquiry will not take place until after all criminal investigations and trials related to Part 1 are concluded.”
That new position was confirmed by a statement by spokesman for the new Conservative Government, elected in May 2015 to replace the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition, to the Daily Mail in December 2015:
“Yesterday, a spokesman for No 10 said: ‘We have always been clear that a decision on whether or not to take forward part two of the Leveson Inquiry will not be taken until all criminal trials [are over].”
A News International title followed up quickly the briefing which was happening from Government:
“Senior government and judicial sources told The Times that the second part of the inquiry into press and police corruption would never see the light of day amid limited political appetite for another lengthy and expensive judicial inquiry into Fleet Street and the Met.”
The Government itself now fed the untrue version of history:
“Leveson part 2 will not be able to take place until after those investigations and trials have concluded. However, as soon as they have been completed, we will formally consult Sir Brian Leveson, as he now is, as chair of the inquiry before announcing what is appropriate.”
Finally, in November 2016, under new Prime Minister Theresa May, the Government set up a formal consultation allowing the possibility of not commencing Leveson 2.
The heat of the original debate around press intrusion and the Milly Dowler Affair had long subsided. It was no longer the focus of public attention which had moved on to the Brexit Referendum and its complex aftermath. Three new political party leaders had, for different reasons, replaced those who had expressed such unanimity in 2011.
However, the first part of the Leveson Inquiry had been successfully concluded. Sir Brian Leveson had conducted the Inquiry in an exemplary way and produced a widely praised report. It was clear that any abandonment of Leveson 2 would have to overcome the substantial hurdle of the views of Sir Brian Leveson on its abandonment. That role fell to the new Culture Secretary, Matt Hancock.
I had followed the Inquiry with interest. In 2015 I had become a member of the Commons’ DCMS Select Committee tasked with scrutinising this area, following up my long standing interest in the issue. I was, therefore, watching out for the Government statement on its response to the Consultation on Leveson 2 which, after a long delay, finally arrived on 1st March 2018.
PART THREE: Breaking the Promise
In accordance with convention, the Secretary of State made an Oral statement to the Commons Chamber on that day. I was present in my usual place on the Opposition back bench. I knew that I would need to listen with particular care to Matt Hancock’s statement and I was listening, especially, to what he said Lord Leveson had said. I was at a disadvantage: I had no advance sight of the statement or any of the documentation referred to in it. I heard Matt Hancock say:
“Sir Brian, whom I thank for his service, agrees that the inquiry should not proceed under the current terms of reference but believes that it should continue in an amended form.”
Even at the time in the Chamber, I thought the wording of this sentence was odd. It suggested that Sir Brian agreed with the Government but goes on to say that he thought the Inquiry should continue, unlike the Government. What did this mean exactly?
It was impossible for me, or anyone else questioning Hancock that day, to know because we had not seen the detailed correspondence between Hancock and Leveson, a fact Hancock knew very well.
Immediately after the statement, I rushed to the House of Commons Library and asked to see the correspondence. I was astonished to read Sir Brian’s own words in response to the Government’s conclusion that Part 2 of the Inquiry should not proceed:
“I fundamentally disagree with that conclusion.”
Far from Sir Brian agreeing with the Government, he disagreed.
The moment in the Chamber had passed. The announcement that Leveson Part 2 would not take place had been made. Despite subsequent Points of Order in the Chamber pointing out that many MPs believed they had been misled as to Sir Brian’s views, it seemed the Secretary of State had got away with breaking a Prime Minister’s unequivocal commitment to hold Leveson II. I knew, however, that there would be another opportunity for me.
The Commons’ Chamber can be an intimidating bear-pit. It allows a backbench MP, however, only one chance to hit home, with only one question. With no advance notice and on a technical issue, like the terms of the Leveson Inquiry, one blow would never be enough. In contrast, Select Committee examination allows detailed questioning to take a matter to its conclusion. In my own Ministerial career, I found answering to a Select Committee one of the most difficult jobs, especially defending a collective Government policy over which I had personal doubts.
Matt Hancock was due to give evidence to the DCMS Committee later in March 2018 and I was determined to expose what I believed he had done – in my opinion he had misled the House of Commons, not inadvertently but quite deliberately, by use of specific language, designed to mislead. I was determined because I believed that this was not just a single event but the end of a long, planned, Government process over seven years, of resiling from the promises made by a Prime Minister, by a Government, to vulnerable individuals and families who were victims of an abuse of power. This would allow powerful businesses to continue to abuse people like the Dowlers. The unique opportunity to act which had been offered by the exposure of the hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone would have been lost.
I also knew that no-one else would have this opportunity.
PART FOUR: Truth Doesn’t Matter
On 14 March 2018, I began my questioning of Matt Hancock with the detail which I knew was vital. I had prepared very intensively, choosing each word of my cross-examination carefully, quoting the correspondence between Hancock and Sir Brian Leveson:
Ian Lucas: “When the Government corresponded with Sir Brian Leveson in December of last year they indicated in a letter dated 21 December that, and I quote, “We are not convinced the second part of the Inquiry is necessary”. In response to that letter of 21 December Sir Brian Leveson wrote back and, to quote Sir Brian Leveson, he said, “I fundamentally disagree with that conclusion”. Why did you not tell the House of Commons that?
Matt Hancock: We published the letter on the same day that I announced the conclusion of the consultation.
Ian Lucas: What you did, Secretary of State, was make a statement in the House of Commons. What you said, and I quote from Hansard, is, “Sir Brian, whom I thank for his service, agrees that the inquiry should not proceed under the current terms of reference but believes that it should continue in amended form”.
Matt Hancock: That is right.
Ian Lucas: You did not say that Sir Brian Leveson disagreed with the conclusion that the Government had reached.
Matt Hancock: Implicitly I did because I said, as you read out, that he believes that it should continue in an amended form. That is his position as he sets it out in the letter.
Ian Lucas: What Sir Brian Leveson said was that he fundamentally disagreed with the Government’s conclusion and when you made the statement to the Commons on 1 March you did not tell the Commons that, did you?
Matt Hancock: I said that he believed that it should continue and that was his position. Obviously he disagreed with my conclusion, which is that initiating Leveson 2 is not what is needed and not in the national interest.
Ian Lucas: He disagreed with you?
Matt Hancock: Yes, he did, and he wrote that to me.
Ian C. Lucas: What you told the Commons when you made your statement was that he agreed with you.
Matt Hancock: No, I said that he agrees that the inquiry should not proceed under the current terms of reference, which is true, and he said that he believes that it should continue in an amended form, which is also true. I think by saying it in the way that I did I explained his position. I did not use his words but I explained his position.
Ian Lucas: Secretary of State, I was in the Chamber for that statement and I was very concerned about what Sir Brian Leveson’s position was on this matter. When I listened to you my understanding was that his position was exactly the opposite of what you are now saying it was…….
Ian C. Lucas: Can I tell you why this is important? We have tried to proceed on a basis of consensus thus far on an important area of policy. You are a new Secretary of State and you stood up in the House of Commons and you represented Sir Brian Leveson’s position. I think you misrepresented his position and I have told you why. Sir Brian Leveson fundamentally disagreed with the Government’s conclusion. Those are not my words, those are Sir Brian Leveson’s words. Why should I believe you today?
Matt Hancock: Because everything I said then was accurate and I represented the position of his letter as a whole, that he believed that the inquiry should continue. I was standing up to explain that I thought that taking everything into account, all the changes since the Leveson Inquiry—all the changes in law, the fact that IPSO now exists—I decided that the best thing is not to have a backward-looking inquiry but a forward-looking inquiry.
Ian Lucas: I know what your position is. What I am saying to you is that you misrepresented Sir Brian Leveson’s position to the Commons on that day.
Matt Hancock: That is your view. We are not going to come to an agreement on it. I think I have faithfully represented it, as you read out. I can see that you would rather I had done differently.
Ian C. Lucas: No, what I would rather is that you had been straightforward. I am a lawyer; I know when particular words are drafted for particular purposes, and I think your words were drafted to mislead. That is what I think.
Matt Hancock: All I can say—
Ian Lucas: What I would have preferred would be if you quoted Sir Brian Leveson when he said that he fundamentally disagreed with the conclusion that the Government had reached.
Matt Hancock: I can see that that is your preference. I wrote my speech in order to describe his position and that is that.
Ian Lucas: My preference, Secretary of State, is for honesty and straightforward evidence. I would welcome that from you.
Matt Hancock: Noted.
Looking back now, three years on, this exchange was a big part of my decision to stand down from Parliament the following year. I was always told that telling the truth was a fundamental part of Parliamentary process for a Member. I remembered, even as a child, reading about John Profumo and how his career had ended because he had told a lie to the House of Commons Chamber. It was my view that Hancock had misled me in the Commons Chamber and I thought I had exposed it in my cross-examination of him. What astonished me was his lack of contrition. What also astonished me was how little interest the press took in the exchange. I do not remember ever being asked by a journalist about the cross-examination. It seemed to me that telling the truth in Parliament no longer mattered.
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Matt Hancock has announced his intention to step down as an MP at the next election.
The former health secretary turned reality TV star becomes the latest of a young cohort of Conservative MPs who have said they intend to give up the job at the end of the current parliament.
In a letter to the Prime Minister, Hancock said: “For my part, I want to do things differently. I have discovered a whole new world of possibilities which I am excited to explore – new ways for me to communicate with people of all ages and from all backgrounds."
In a lengthy missive, Hancock “also commended himself for supporting Rishi Sunak in his bid to replace Liz Truss as Prime Minister during a turbulent year for the Conservative Party”, said The Telegraph.
He concluded his letter by saying it had been “an honour to serve in Parliament and represent the people of West Suffolk”.
“I will play my part in the debate about the future of our country and engage with the public in new ways,” he said.
A perennial cabinet minister in successive Tory governments, Hancock was suspended as a Conservative MP after taking part in the ITV reality show I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!
What is Hancock’s background?
Hancock was born in Chester, Cheshire, in 1978, and went to school in the area. He read philosophy, politics and economic at Oxford University’s Exeter College before completing an MPhil in economics at Christ’s College, Cambridge.
After working for a Tory bankbencher and at the Bank of England, his first foray into politics was in 2005, when he worked as an advisor for the then shadow chancellor George Osborne. Writing in The Independent, chief political commentator John Rentoul described Hancock as “energetic, clever, and a bit Tiggerish”.
Hancock became the member of parliament for West Suffolk in 2010 and worked in numerous ministerial roles under David Cameron and Theresa May before his “big break came in early 2018”, said the BBC. He was made culture, media and sport secretary in May’s cabinet reshuffle in January 2018, but was only in the job for six months before being made health secretary, succeeding Jeremy Hunt.
‘Into the limelight’ before an ‘abrupt exit’
Having unsuccessfully bid to become Tory leader following May’s resignation in 2019, Hancock backed Boris Johnson as a candidate and was “among a handful of ministers to keep their roles”, said the BBC.
He was “as energetic and diligent as ever” as health secretary, wrote Rentoul, and keeping his job again after the 2019 general election was “a testament to his hard work and the prime minister’s sense that he wasn’t a threat”.
It wasn’t long before Hancock “achieved an unusually high profile for a health secretary”, said the BBC, becoming a regular spokesperson for the government during the Covid-19 pandemic, which “propelled [him] into the limelight”.
Hancock’s time as health secretary ended with an “abrupt exit”, said Dominic McGrath in The Independent, after he was caught in June 2021 on CCTV “appearing to kiss his adviser Gina Coladangelo” despite having been married for 15 years. With social distancing measures in place at the time, he “faced pressure to stand down” for breaking rules set by his government. Despite initially attempting to stay on, Hancock eventually resigned because of the breach and returned to the backbenches.
That incident was “not the first time Hancock had faced a negative headline”, said PA. He had been accused of lying to the prime minister about Covid testing in care homes by Dominic Cummings, the former Downing Street chief-of-staff. Cummings also later released WhatsApp messages in which Johnson was said to have described Hancock as “hopeless”.
Following Johnson’s resignation earlier this year, Hancock was “an enthusiastic backer of Sunak”, added PA, and potentially “still harboured a return to a government role”. He put his name forward for head of the Treasury committee in October before pulling out of the race.
In his Sun article defending his reality TV appearance, however, Hancock wrote that “I don’t expect to serve in government again”.
“But I can support Rishi and the government in different ways,” he added.
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Health Secretary Matt Hancock met former PM David Cameron and financier Lex Greensill for a "private drink" in 2019 to discuss a new payment scheme for the NHS, it has been revealed.
It is the latest in a series of Sunday Times disclosures about Mr Cameron's lobbying work since leaving office.
Mr Greensill advised Mr Cameron's government, and the ex-PM went on to be employed by Greensill Capital.
An ally of Mr Hancock said he had "acted in entirely the correct way".
They told the BBC that Mr Hancock had "updated officials on the business that was discussed, as is appropriate".
Greensill Capital's scheme, which allowed staff to be paid early for hours they had already worked, went on to be used by some NHS trusts.
The development is the latest to be published by the Sunday Times detailing Mr Cameron's work for Greensill Capital after he left politics.
Mr Hancock is the fourth minister to have been lobbied by Mr Cameron on behalf of the company, which recently collapsed costing 440 jobs.
Mr Greensill worked as an unpaid adviser to Mr Cameron when he was prime minister.
The financier developed a policy designed to help small businesses get their bills paid faster, as part of a scheme that also benefited his own financial company, Greensill Capital.
Mr Cameron began working for Greensill Capital after leaving office, and tried unsuccessfully to lobby the government to increase the firm's access to government-backed loans during the first phase of the coronavirus pandemic.
Mr Cameron pressed Treasury officials - and sent text messages to Chancellor Rishi Sunak's personal phone - to access emergency funding for Greensill Capital.
The former Tory leader - who was PM between 2010 and 2016 - is reported to have told friends he was set to earn as much as £60m from share options in Greensill Capital, although this has since been disputed.
In the end, Mr Cameron's pleas to the Treasury for Covid emergency loans for Greensill Capital fell on deaf ears.
'Private drink'
The "private drink" between Mr Hancock, Mr Cameron and Mr Greensill took place in October 2019.
In August 2019, Mr Greensill wrote to Mr Hancock to set out a proposal to allow the NHS access to an app Greensill Capital had devised, called Earnd, to pay doctors and nurses either daily or weekly in advance and free-of-charge to workers.
Having received the letter, the health secretary commissioned advice from civil servants to explore the idea.
The advice was that the "principle" of the idea was "good," but sources insisted he wanted other suppliers to be able to offer the same work and it would be up to local NHS managers to decide whether to sign up to it.
Some NHS trusts went on to use Greensill Capital's Earnd app during the pandemic.
Will David Cameron answer mounting questions?
This is the latest illustration of the web of connections between a former prime minister, a businessman and government ministers.
Remember, Lex Greensill worked in Downing Street when David Cameron was PM.
And then their relationship reversed when Mr Cameron left office: he went to work for Mr Greensill.
Individuals, businesses, charities and trade unions seek to influence the government all the time.
But how many people get to have a private drink with the health secretary?
Matt Hancock insists he behaved entirely correctly.
Neither Mr Cameron nor Mr Greensill have spoken publicly since headlines about the two of them started to appear several weeks ago now.
In the last few days, those close to them have begun to talk.
Will Mr Cameron eventually feel compelled to face a camera and address the many questions he now faces?
A source close to Mr Greensill said the scheme was offered free to both the NHS and its employees, while a source close to Mr Cameron said: "David Cameron was an enthusiastic champion of Greensill's pay product, Earnd, and met with various people to discuss its rollout across the NHS."
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David Cameron left office with a song in his heart. Britain’s 53rd prime minister had just finished his resignation statement outside 10 Downing Street in July 2016, and as he walked back toward the recognizable black door, his pocket microphone picked up the sound of him humming a little tune: “Do dooooo, doo-doo.” Some detected a touch of The West Wing, others thought it was Wagner, but it was more of an amiable Winnie-the-Pooh sort of tiddely-pom, a sound that indicated a man at ease with his decision.
As the door closed, Cameron was heard to say “Right …” absentmindedly. I wrote in the next day’s Times of London that he sounded “as if he were the Earl of Grantham just returned from rogering one of Downton Abbey’s maids and not sure of how else to pass the afternoon.”
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Of course Matt Hancock stripped to his pants to take a dip in the Serpentine in Hyde Park the other day, and he actually turned and smiled at the camera! Dear God, if he were a woman, he would have undressed behind a great big towel – wriggle, wriggle, wriggle – then crouched and scurried into the water in case anyone saw cellulite/unwaxed shin/chipped pedicure. He would have emerged, if a woman, slightly crouching in case anyone saw his tummy, then done a reverse striptease – tug, tug, tug – under the towel again. At the end of all this, if a woman, he wouldn’t be thinking, ‘Thank God I didn’t drown’ but ‘Thank the Lord no one saw my buttocks’.
MATT HANCOCK, the Health Secretary, simply had to go. Sometimes Ministers are forced out for contrived or barely relevant reasons. This was not one of those times. It is no good saying politicians’ personal lives are not the public’s business - because politicians are making the personal behaviour of the public their business. And none forced his way into the private lives of the people more than Mr Hancock.
I’M NOT sure how you are supposed to choose, when you are told your dad has a 50-50 chance of living but only one of his two children can go and see him, and then only for an hour. Who claims visiting rights? The older child? The younger? Toss a coin for it? Rock, paper, scissors? Best of three? A quick sibling wrestle in the hospital car park?
ONE of the many times Matt Hancock’s name has lately gone ‘viral’ on the internet came when Kay Burley asked him in September whether a new round of Covid restrictions had made casual sex illegal.
FROM his love bunker deep in the Department of Health, Matt Hancock has been laying down the Covid social-distancing laws since the pandemic began. For millions of us, there has been no escape from his strictures. Listen to him go on!
12pm: Matt Hancock today insisted that Boris Johnson’s criticism of him as ‘hopeless’ is not embarrassing.
The Health Secretary said the remarks ‘feel like ancient history’, adding: ‘At times of stress, people say all sorts of things in private.’
MATT Hancock was on the rack last night, after struggling to deny a claim that he had lied about care home testing at the height of the pandemic.
5pm: Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock have poured fresh doubts on the June 21 easing of restrictions as they warned it was still too early to confirm whether the next stage in the roadmap would go ahead.
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Already possibly one of the nation’s better known politicians for his role as health secretary during a once-in-a-century pandemic, Matt Hancock is about to encounter a whole new audience as he prepares to join I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
Swapping the world of Westminster for jungle antics with Ant and Dec is certainly an unorthodox shift for the former minister, whose government career had an unfortunate ending after he resigned in the aftermath of his affair with an aide that broke his own coronavirus rules.
Only in recent days was Mr Hancock reportedly mulling a bid to become chair of the Treasury Select Committee, apparently opting instead for bushtucker trials instead of banks and bonds.
Appointed health secretary in 2018 after spending 18 months in the culture brief, he had been a prominent figure for the government during its handling of the coronavirus pandemic until his abrupt exit.
He had faced pressure to stand down after pictures emerged depicting the married minister appearing to kiss his adviser Gina Coladangelo, with CCTV images published in The Sun taken on May 6 when guidance on social distancing were still in place, with hugging between people from different households recommended against.
Around the same period, Boris Johnson’s former aide Dominic Cummings had shared text messages in which Boris Johnson was said to have called the health secretary “hopeless”.
Mr Cummings accused the senior minister of lying to the prime minister over promises to protect those in care homes during the first wave of Covid-19 infections by testing new residents before being admitted.
Mr Hancock dismissed claims he lied and called Mr Johnson’s “hopeless” jibe “ancient history”.
Mr Hancock, who in 2018 became the only MP in British politics to launch his own app, took only eight years to rise from West Suffolk MP to health secretary.
The Oxford and Cambridge educated father-of-three previously worked as an economist at the Bank of England and as chief of staff to George Osborne when he was shadow chancellor of the exchequer, before taking a seat in the Commons.
The Cheshire-raised politician first attended cabinet after being appointed Minister for the Cabinet Office in 2015 by then prime minister David Cameron.
Mr Cameron’s successor Theresa May later promoted him to the role of culture secretary.
The 42-year-old initially threw his hat into the ring to replace Mrs May in No 10 during the 2019 Conservative Party leadership contest but withdrew from the leadership race part way through and was quick to throw his weight behind Mr Johnson.
He was among the handful of ministers to retain his brief when Mr Johnson took power in July 2019, making him one of the most prominent ministers when coronavirus rocked Britain eight months later.
In his resignation video, he said that he was looking forward to “supporting the government and the prime minister from the back benches to make sure that we can get out of this pandemic”.
After Boris Johnson’s downfall this summer, he was an enthusiastic backer of Mr Sunak and speculation persisted that he still harboured a return to a Government role.
Even as Liz Truss’s government crumbled, his advice from the sidelines did little to dampen that speculation.
Once she resigned, he returned as a vocal Sunak backer – although his standing in the new leader’s camp was brought into sharp relief after the victorious Mr Sunak appeared to blank the former health secretary, who stood waiting to greet him at the front of the crowd at Conservative HQ.
His decision to join I’m a Celebrity has already prompted mockery, as well as swift repercussions politically – Chief Whip Simon Hart said the situation was so serious he should have the right to sit as a Conservative suspended.
Allies said he would use his appearance to promote his backbench work on dyslexia, as he tried to “embrace” popular culture.
“Politicians like Matt must go to where the people are – particularly those who are politically disengaged,” one ally said.
Others were less flattering.
Andy Drummond, deputy chairman (political) of West Suffolk Conservative Association, told PA news agency: “I’m looking forward to him eating a kangaroo’s penis.
“Quote me. You can quote me that.”
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Disgraced West Suffolk MP Matt Hancock has found himself back in the spotlight over leaked WhatsApp messages.
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Matt Hancock, somehow still the Member of Parliament representing the constituency of West Suffolk, has been something of a tabloid feature of late.
From his rule-breaking time on the TV reality show “I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!”, his comments on the scandal embroiling the Conservative peer in the House of Lords, Baroness Mone, and the of threat legal action against him by a fellow Conservative MP, to the fact that he set up his own television production company, he has clocked up a range of headlines.
Throughout, from going into the jungle to when it was reported he paid less than 8% of the fee to the charity he had said he was fundraising for, he has somehow managed to stay immune from the criticism.
A change of mood
Then early in the morning of 1 March 2023 reports started of WhatsApp messages that had been shared with the journalist who had helped Mr Hancock produce his contentious memoir Pandemic Diaries.
The journalist was Isabel Oakeshott, the ghost writer of both Covid Diaries and the unauthorised David Cameron biography which referenced a pig. She delivered (leaked?) her bombshell via the Daily Telegraph.
The central thrust of the initial article was that Mr Hancock, when health secretary, had ignored advice from Professor Sir Chris Whitty that all patients entering care homes should be tested. At the time Government policy was to discharge patients untested into care homes.
This decision was later found to be unlawful, though neither Mr Hancock nor the then Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned over it.
Rebuttal from Hancock’s camp
Oakeshott’s claims made the headlines, and a short time afterwards came the rebuttal. The BBC reported that Mr Hancock’s spokesman had accused the Telegraph of doctoring the messages by excluding a line from a text from one of his aides which “demonstrates there was a meeting at which advice on deliverability was given”.
The statement added: “By omitting this, the messages imply Matt simply overruled clinical advice. That is categorically untrue. He went as far as was possible, as fast as possible, to expand testing and save lives.” There were later reports that Mr Hancock was considering all options, including legal action.
Legal issues
Because the leak came from a journalist with whom Mr Hancock reputedly had a non-disclosure agreement, and these were private messages, the Information Commissioners Office has issued a statement.
“Data protection law ensures people’s personal information is used properly and fairly, including ensuring personal details are not disclosed inappropriately. But there are exemptions set out within the law, including around journalism and for literary purposes in the public interest, reflecting the importance of freedom of expression in society.
“At this stage we do not see this as a matter for the ICO but there are questions around the conditions on which departing members of government retain and subsequently use official information which need to be considered by organisations such as the Cabinet Office.
“But today’s coverage does again raise questions about the risks that the use of WhatsApp and other private channels bring, particularly around transparency. Last year, the ICO called for a review into the use of private messaging apps within government, and we would reiterate that call today. Public officials should be able to show their workings, through proper recording of decisions and through the Freedom of Information Act, to ensure that trust in those decisions is secured and lessons are learnt for the future.”
Constituents feel abandoned
Time will tell if any civil or criminal laws were broken. Yet in the words of Reality TV personality and social commentator Professor Tim Wilson, the whole situation has made the former health secretary look both greedy and cheap.
So how can we restore integrity to political service? One suggestion was offered by Adam Hills during Mr Hancock’s absence in Australia at the end of last year. When interviewed on ‘Good Morning Britain’ the day after he held a fake political surgery in Hancock’s constituency, Mr Hill agreed with the presenter Richard Madeley that the feeling was more of ‘sadness than of anger’: the residents just wanted to be ‘listened to’.
Ultimately the role of an MP is to represent, and serve their constituency, not to make a name for themselves. Perhaps all that has happened will offer a cautionary tale for those who choose to follow Mr Hancock into politics.
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Health secretary was lobbied by David Cameron and financier Lex Greensill to introduce earned wage access scheme in NHS, it has emerged.
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Health secretary Matt Hancock was lobbied by former Prime Minister David Cameron and financier Lex Greensill to introduce a payroll scheme that was later offered within the NHS, it emerged over the weekend.
There are fears that procurement and open competition rules were flouted as NHS staff became entitled to use a remuneration scheme to gain payments before their payday. Additionally, sources have told The Sunday Times that Greensill’s plan was to convert the NHS future payments into bonds and sell them internationally.
Cameron held share options worth millions of pounds in Greensill Capital, a financial services company he advised, which has subsequently gone bust, threatening 55,000 jobs across the world, including 5,000 in the UK.
According to The Sunday Times, in October 2019, Cameron, arranged a “private drink” with Hancock and Greensill. The Australian banker’s firm wanted to introduce a scheme to remunerate doctors and nurses before their usual paydays.
Meetings were arranged between Greensill, NHS chief executive Simon Stevens and Dido Harding, then head of NHS Improvement.
Allies of Hancock, said the newspaper, encouraged Greensill to work directly with NHS trusts on the basis that other suppliers were free to offer the service.
But crucially, months after the meeting last April, NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS), a joint vehicle owned by the Department of Health and a French IT firm, announced a pilot with Earnd – a payments start-up then owned by Greensill. It later said the scheme was being introduced to “all” NHS organisations.
This meant that 400,000 employees who used NHS SBS for their payroll services became entitled to use Earnd and download it onto their payroll app.
Private firms cannot automatically house their services on such platforms and are typically required to bid to get potentially lucrative access to the health service’s vast workforce. In this instance there was no procurement process or open competition.
Earnd offered the scheme free to workers, who could opt to receive their wages on a daily or weekly basis. The organisation providing the immediate payment in such instances was Earnd, which would later recoup staff salaries from the NHS.
The Times said Greensill framed the scheme as benevolent, explaining the aim was to help alleviate NHS workers’ stress during the pandemic. But two senior former employees say the plan was to convert the NHS’s future payments into bonds and sell them internationally. They also used the credibility of working with the NHS via the service, and a separate pharmacy scheme agreed by Cameron during his time in office, to demonstrate their credibility with investors.
Some of the country’s biggest trusts, such as the Royal Free in London, signed up, but last month Earnd filed for administration.
According to The Times, “The company’s collapse poses questions about the circumstances in which NHS SBS entered into the partnership. The entity is not a public body and there was no transparency surrounding the agreement.”
An NHS spokesperson said: “The NHS has a duty to support staff while using taxpayers’ money wisely, so officials do meet organisations that may be able to provide good-value services which are effective, and when ideas are taken forward, contracts are put through the appropriate and transparent tendering processes. The proposals were not taken forward in this case.”
The Department of Health said: “The wellbeing of NHS staff is the top priority of the department and the health secretary. Our approach was and is that local NHS employers are best placed to decide how different pay flexibilities fit with their overall pay-and-reward offer for their staff.”
Meanwhile, UK fintech firm Wagestream, which offers workers early access to wages, has scooped up Earnd Australia, a Sydney-based competitor that Greensill acquired just last year.
Critics say that employer salary advance schemes, such as those offered by Wagestream, and used to be offered by Earnd, can push consumers into cycles of debt and should be regulated in the same manner as much-criticised payday lenders. However, Wagestream contends that this concern has been “de-bunked”. A spokesperson told Personnel Today: “Our impact assessments, run bi-annually with our founding charity partners and published online, show that 72% of those using earned wage access feel more in control of their finances as a result; almost two-thirds say it improves their quality of life. EWA is also proven by data to get people back on the front foot and avoid cycles of debt and credit reliance, reducing payday loan use by 88%, credit card use by 39% and overdraft use by 31%.”
Last summer, the Financial Conduct Authority pointed out there was a lack of regulation around salary advance schemes. It warned of there was little transparency around costs, and there was a possibility of workers making repeat withdrawals and becoming dependent on the services to make ends meet. Subsequent FCA comment, in the Woolard Review, stated that while salary schemes gave employees more control over their finances: “It is important ESAS providers and employers monitor use and proactively engage with employees whose usage indicates they are in financial difficulty.”
Wagestream’s spokesperson called the regulator’s guidance an “excellent first step” and added that the data now showed that “EWA can be hugely positive – if guided by charities, designed with better savings and education as the end goal, and used responsibly.”
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Matt Hancock will have "overall responsibility for the policy and work" of the Cabinet Office but is not a full Cabinet minister, the government has confirmed, as more details on his role emerged this afternoon.
The new minister for the Cabinet Office, who replaces Francis Maude, was appointed yesterday as David Cameron put the finishing touches to his ministerial team following the Conservatives' general election victory.
There was some confusion yesterday over the precise role former business minister Hancock would play, when Cameron announced that Oliver Letwin – previously minister for policy in the Cabinet Office – would now be in "overall charge" of the department, a responsibility which previously fell to Maude. It has now emerged that Hancock will have the same policy remit as his predecessor, but will report to Oliver Letwin.
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A description of Hancock's role provided by the Cabinet Office today in an updated ministerial profile matches that previously given to Maude, and includes responsibility for the civil service; public sector efficiency and reform; public sector industrial relations; government transparency; cyber security; and civil society.
The Cabinet Office this afternoon confirmed to CSW that while Hancock will be Cabinet-attending, he is a minister of state, with Letwin serving as the full Cabinet minister for the department.
Letwin, who continues as chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster – a largely ceremonial title – now starts work in his first full Cabinet post. A Tory MP since 1997, he served as a key behind-the-scenes player in the previous government, overseeing initiatives including the new network of 'What Works' research centres to support evidence-based policy.
There has been further reaction to Hancock's appointment since it was announced yesterday, with the Reform think tank this afternoon saying the new minister had taken on "one of the toughest jobs in government".
"Whitehall shrugged off Francis Maude's reform plan with ease," Reform's deputy director Richard Harries said. "The challenge now is to restart that process, build on the more successful elements like mutualisation, and continue to drive out efficiencies across departments."
Dave Penman of the FDA union meanwhile called on Hancock to demonstrate "clear vision" of how the Conservatives' plans for an estimated £30bn of public spending cuts would be met, warning that the civil service "cannot simply be treated as a tool for deficit reduction".
He added: "If it is to be smaller but more able, the government needs to outline how it will provide civil servants with the recognition, reward and resources they need to deliver the services the public expects.”
The prime minister chaired the first meeting of his new-look Cabinet this morning, announcing that he would be putting two bills – one lowering the benefit cap to £23,000 per year to fund apprenticeships and one doubling the amount of free childcare people are entitled to – at the heart of the first Queen's Speech of the parliament.
Meanwhile, Cabinet secretary Jeremy Heywood has said it will be "business as usual" for the civil service following the election of the new government.
In a post on his GOV.UK blog, Heywood said Whitehall stood "ready to support and implement the policies of the incoming administration", and praised the civil service for its "professionalism, integrity and impartiality" during the election campaign.
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LONDON (AP) — The controversy over former British Prime Minister David Cameron’s lobbying on behalf of a now-bankrupt financial services firm deepened Monday as the government launched an investigation that opponents immediately labeled a “cover-up.”
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LONDON (AP) — The controversy over former British Prime Minister David Cameron’s lobbying on behalf of a now-bankrupt financial services firm deepened Monday as the government launched an investigation that opponents immediately labeled a “cover-up.”
The Conservative government announced plans for an independent inquiry into Greensill Capital after Cameron made his first comments on the scandal and two senior politicians called for new rules on contacts between business representatives and government officials.
Over the past month, a series of news reports revealed that Cameron lobbied government officials, including Treasury chief Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Matt Hancock, on behalf of Greensill, which collapsed last month, threatening thousands of jobs at a British steelmaker that it helped finance.
Gordon Brown, U.K. prime minister from 2007 to 2010, on Monday called for a five-year ban on lobbying by former ministers. But Bernard Jenkin, a lawmaker who led an inquiry into links between government and business, said the only way to combat this long-running problem is to require serving ministers and civil servants to report inappropriate conduct by lobbyists.
“It’s been a culture in Whitehall that’s been building up for a long time,” Jenkin told the BBC, using a British term for central government. “This very informal way of conducting relationships about very important matters and the distribution of public money — well, I don’t think the public thinks that’s acceptable.”
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesman said the Cabinet Office has commissioned an independent review into Greensill and its work on “supply-chain finance,” a technique the government sought to use to expedite payments to contractors, including pharmacies supplying the National Health Service. The review will be led by attorney Nigel Boardman and will look at the way contracts were secured and “how business representatives engaged with government,” Max Blain said.
Johnson is the leader of the Conservative Party, the same party Cameron represented when he led the nation.
Rachel Reeves, the opposition Labour Party’s spokeswoman on treasury issues, said the investigation was an attempt to sidestep the controversy until the public forgets about it, just as the government did with earlier allegations of bullying by a cabinet minister. She called on Cameron, Sunak and Hancock to appear before Parliament as soon as possible.
“This has all the hallmarks of another cover-up by the Conservatives,” Reeves said.
British media began digging into Cameron’s work for Greensill after the company’s collapse forced the owner of Liberty Steel, which employs about 5,000 people, to seek a government bailout. Greensill was one of the company’s key financial backers.
The developments came after Cameron made his first comments on Greensill late Sunday, when he released an 1,800-word statement on his involvement with the firm.
News reports showed that Cameron sent text messages to Sunak in an effort to secure government-backed loans for Greensill under a program to help companies hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic. He also lobbied Hancock on behalf of a Greensill product that would have allowed NHS workers to receive advance payments on their salaries.
Cameron, who was employed as a part-time adviser to Greensill, said his work on behalf of the company didn’t break any rules or codes of conduct on the activities of former ministers.
“However, I have reflected on this at length,” Cameron said. “There are important lessons to be learnt. As a former prime minister, I accept that communications with government need to be done through only the most formal of channels, so there can be no room for misinterpretation.”
Cameron was prime minister from May 2010 to July 2016, resigning after he led the failed campaign for Britain to remain in the European Union. Lex Greensill, a banker who later founded Greensill Capital, began working as a government adviser in 2011.
Cameron said he started working for Greensill in August 2018, and that he received shares in the company as part of his compensation. He rejected press reports that he expected the shares to be worth $60 million when Greensill went public.
“Their value was nowhere near the amount speculated in the press,” he said.
Brown said the government must act quickly in response to the Greensill affair because it has the potential to bring public service into “disrepute,” just like the parliamentary expenses scandal of 2008. At that time, several members of Parliament were found to have improperly inflated their expenses, leading to new rules governing their conduct.
“For me, there are principles about public service,” Brown told the BBC. “It cannot ever become a platform for private gain. Ministers must never be lobbying — former ministers, prime ministers — must never be lobbying for commercial purposes.”
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Downing Street announced the review on Monday after weeks of publicity about claims that Mr. Cameron, who stepped down as prime minister in 2016, had approached cabinet ministers on behalf of the firm, Greensill Capital, which has now collapsed.
Mr. Cameron was a friend and rival of the current prime minister, Boris Johnson — first at Eton College, Britain’s most famous high school, then at Oxford University and finally within the Conservative Party, which they both went on to lead.
The allegations come at a sensitive moment for Mr. Johnson, whose government has been accused of cronyism and favoritism toward Conservative Party supporters in awarding lucrative contracts during the coronavirus crisis.
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“Not only is it more important for lobbying to be transparent during a time of emergency when government has deliberately suspended normal rules on procurement and public appointments in order to respond at speed,” she said, “but the idea of politicians benefiting from the crisis by lining their pockets is particularly offensive.”
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Matt Hancock has said he is “very sorry” for breaching social distancing rules after images emerged of him passionately kissing a senior aide.
Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) CCTV footage obtained by The Sun shows the health secretary and adviser Gina Coladangelo “in a steamy clinch at his Whitehall office” on the day of the local elections in May.
Whistleblowers within Hancock’s department told the paper that he “had been spotted cheating on his wife of 15 years” with his closest aide Coladangelo multiple times, claiming “the pair have regularly been caught in clinches together”.
‘He was so brazen’
According to The Sun, the security footage shows Hancock “checking the corridor is clear before closing the door and then leaning on it to ensure he cannot be disturbed”. Once the pair are alone in his “distinctive ninth-floor office”, Coladangelo then “walks towards him and the pair begin their passionate embrace”.
A DHSC source told the paper that “they have tried to keep it a secret but everyone knows what goes on inside a building like that”, adding: “I’m just amazed he was so brazen about it as he was the secretary of state.
“It has also shocked people because he put her in such an important, publicly funded role and this is what they get up to in office hours when everyone else is working hard.”
Hancock met Coladangelo, the wife of millionaire Oliver Bonas founder Oliver Tress, while they were students at Oxford University. She is the director and major shareholder of lobbying firm Luther Pendragon and was appointed to a taxpayer funded role as a non-executive director at DHSC by Hancock last year.
The appointment sparked questions over “chumocracy”, with The Sunday Times reporting in November that the health secretary “failed to declare that he appointed his closest friend from university” to the £15,000-a-year role on the board of his department.
At the time, a source told the paper that she had accompanied him to confidential meetings with civil servants and visited No. 10, adding: “Before Matt does anything big, he’ll speak to Gina. She knows everything.”
Hancock has apologised for breaching the government’s social distancing rules during the tryst reported by The Sun, telling the paper: “I accept that I breached the social distancing guidance in these circumstances.
“I have let people down and am very sorry. I remain focused on working to get the country out of this pandemic, and would be grateful for privacy for my family on this personal matter.”
Boris Johnson’s spokesperson told reporters this afternoon that the prime minister has accepted his apology, adding that he “considers the matter closed”.
But coming so soon after Dominic Cummings’ allegations against Hancock during his explosive select committee appearance and subsequent blog posts, the latest scandal has raised questions over how long Hancock can survive in his cabinet role.
‘Poor man’
Earlier this week, during her first face-to-face meeting with the prime minister since the outbreak of the pandemic, the Queen reportedly expressed sympathy for the beleaguered Hancock, calling him a “poor man”.
But if things were looking bad for him then, things have got a whole lot worse with The Sun’s expose of his private life.
Labour and the Liberal Democrats have called on Johnson to sack the health secretary over his decision to appoint a personal friend to such a high-powered role and “Hancock did not appear at a planned constituency event this morning”, Sky News reports.
An organiser of the event at Newmarket Racecourse told the broadcaster “he won’t be coming”, adding that his planned appearance had been cancelled “early this morning”.
Labour Party Chair Anneliese Dodds said: “If Matt Hancock has been secretly having a relationship with an adviser in his office – who he personally appointed to a taxpayer-funded role – it is a blatant abuse of power and a clear conflict of interest.
“The charge sheet against Matt Hancock includes wasting taxpayers’ money, leaving care homes exposed and now being accused of breaking his own Covid rules”, she continued, adding: “His position is hopelessly untenable. Boris Johnson should sack him.”
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey joined in with the criticism, describing Hancock as a “terrible health secretary” who “should have been sacked a long time ago for his failures”.
“This latest episode of hypocrisy will break the trust with the British public. He was telling families not to hug loved ones, while doing whatever he liked in the workplace”, Davey said.
“It's clear that he does not share the public’s values. Rules for them and rules for us is no way to run a country. From the PPE scandal, the crisis in our care service and the unbelievably poor test and trace system, he has utterly failed. It is time for the health secretary to go.”
The Telegraph’s health and science correspondent Henry Bodkin says that the pictures will “have inevitably fuelled speculation as to whether he can hold on to his job”, but adds that perhaps the “more interesting question” is how Hancock has “managed to cling on this long in the first place”.
Cummings, Johnson’s former right-hand man and his closest adviser in No. 10, told MPs that he felt Hancock should have been fired “15 or 20 times” during the pandemic, yet his “eagerness to act as a punchbag for the media” may go “some way to explaining why his stock in government had risen since the grim days of last autumn”, Bodkin says.
But that was before this latest scandal, which may remind the public of “his reaction to last year’s Neil Ferguson scandal, where he suggested it could be a matter for the police”, as well as “countless hugs with loved-ones missed over recent months”, he adds.
New Statesman political editor Stephen Bush suggests that “no minister is going to be asked to resign for having a ‘steamy clinch’ outside the bounds of marriage”, adding that a dismissal would “be humiliating for the prime minister personally”.
However, he adds that “there are two factors that could change things”, namely “whether or not evidence emerges that Hancock acted improperly in hiring Coladangelo” or whether “Hancock’s unpopularity among Conservative MPs”, who associate him with “continuous lockdown and endless restrictions”, comes back to bite him.
Her non-director role makes Coladangelo responsible for “overseeing and monitoring performance”, meaning she effectively marks Hancock’s homework as secretary of state. A DHSC spokesperson this morning moved to play down suggestions she was improperly appointed, saying the hire was “made in the usual way and followed correct procedure”.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, who this morning faced a tough media round after the story broke late last night, has also denied that Coladangelo was incorrectly hired to the role, telling Sky News that “anyone who’s been appointed has to go through an incredibly rigorous process in government”.
Pushed on whether the rules had been followed, he added: “I think it’s a bit of a red herring in this case. I think it’s really a personal story, so I don’t intend to comment on somebody’s personal life.”
Hancock, for now, appears to be in the clear given Johnson’s acceptance of his apology and, just possibly, his boss’s personal history with infidelity.
But should evidence emerge that Coladangelo was hired because of their personal relationship, his “rap sheet” could “all too quickly become too heavy to survive”, The Telegraph’s Bodkin says.
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As the former health secretary is on our screens again in another reality TV show, Sean O’Neill goes in search of the real Matt Hancock
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Wendy Maisey wants to be an MP and has the makings of a good one. From a working-class background in Liverpool, she is a busy local councillor and a successful businesswoman who has been awarded an OBE. But google her name and very quickly you come across what she calls that “awkward video” with Matt Hancock. Filmed during a “flying visit” by the health secretary, as he then was, to a Warrington hospital, Maisey is talking to camera as Hancock edges uncomfortably close to her, staring intently. Maisey tries to shuffle to the side.
Only after the clip exploded on social media (Hancock was described as “a golden retriever in disguise”) did Maisey watch it back and think, “Blimey, Matt, I didn’t realise you were
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Matt Hancock: A timeline of the former health secretary’s Westminster controversies
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2023-06-27T12:11:24+00:00
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The former health secretary is set to appear before Lady Hallett’s Covid inquiry on Tuesday
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Former UK health secretary Matt Hancock is giving evidence to the Covid inquiry, becoming the latest high-profile politician to be grilled on the government’s response to the pandemic.
Mr Hancock was partly responsible – alongside former prime minister Boris Johnson – for steering the UK’s decision-making and messaging on coronavirus, and his recollections of the event are likely to form a crucial piece of Lady Hallett’s inquiry.
He was previously been criticised over elements of the government’s response, including a perceived lack of transparency surrounding the awarding of lucrative personal protective equipment (PPE) contracts to businesses.
He’s already announced he won’t be re-standing for his West Suffolk constituency at the next general election, but Mr Hancock’s career hasn’t been without controversy.
He was notably forced to resign from his cabinet post in June 2021 after it was found that he breached social distancing guidance by kissing his colleague Gina Coladangelo, the CCTV footage of which went viral on social media. Earlier this year, a leak of more than 100,000 of his WhatsApp messages by journalist Isabel Oakeshott to The Daily Telegraph further outlined a glimpse into the workings of the government during lockdown.
Here’s a timeline of Mr Hancock’s occasionally scandal-hit and frequently unflatteringly-photographed time in Westminster.
6 May 2010 - Chester native, Oxford graduate, former Bank of England economist and George Osborne chief of staff Matt Hancock becomes Tory MP for West Suffolk.
6 September 2012 - Appointed minister of state for skills and enterprise, the first of a string of junior ministerial posts held under David Cameron.
15 July 2014 - Appointed minister of state for energy and minister of state for business and enterprise.
27 July 2014 - Challenged regarding policy protecting fracking in National Parks on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme but is unable to name a single village that supported the introduction of the controversial gas extraction practice.
2 October 2014 - Forced to apologise after sharing a poem on Twitter declaring the Labour Party was “full of queers”, describing the incident as an “accident”.
2 April 2015 - Criticised by environmental activists for hiring a private jet to fly back to London from a climate conference in Aberdeen.
11 May 2015 - Appointed minister for the Cabinet Office and paymaster general.
23 June 2016 - Britain votes to leave the European Union (EU). Mr Hancock backs Remain.
15 July 2016 - Appointed minister of state for digital, culture, media and sport.
8 January 2018 - Promoted to secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport, succeeding Karen Bradley.
2 February 2018 - Launches his own mobile app to keep constituents abreast of his movements, which was later found to collect users’ personal data, albeit with their consent.
9 July 2018 - Appointed health secretary in Ms May’s final Cabinet reshuffle, succeeding Jeremy Hunt.
25 May 2019 - Announces plan to stand for party leadership one day after Ms May’s resignation.
14 June 2019 - Withdraws from race after first ballot and endorses Mr Johnson, the eventual winner. Retained as health secretary in the latter’s first Cabinet.
31 January 2020 - First coronavirus cases diagnosed in Britain.
23 March 2020 - Mr Johnson announces first national lockdown to stop the spread of the virus.
27 March 2020 - Both Mr Hancock and Mr Johnson test positive for the disease and are forced into quarantine.
11 May 2020 - Mr Hancock criticised by the UK Statistics Authority when it emerged that the target he had set for 100,000 daily Covid tests had been met only by changing the method of counting.
19 October 2020 - The Daily Mirror publishes a picture of Mr Hancock riding in a chauffeur-driven car without a face mask.
21 October 2020 - Ridiculed by Piers Morgan on ITV’s Good Morning Britain after applauding the government’s U-turn on free school meals in response to a pressure campaign led by footballer Marcus Rashford and others, despite his having voted against funding them.
2 December 2020 - Rebuked for suggesting the UK’s fast vaccine approval was only possible because of Brexit, whereas EU legislation was in place at the time.
19 February 2021 - High Court judge rules that Mr Hancock acted unlawfully earlier in the pandemic by handing out PPE contracts without publishing details on the recipients within 30 days, as he was obliged to do under Contract Award Notices protocol, only having done so within 47 days.
26 May 2021 - Dominic Cummings, Mr Johnson’s controversial adviser, appears before MPs and says “tens of thousands of people died who didn’t need to die” during the pandemic due to government blunders and that Mr Hancock should have been fired on “15 to 20” different occasions.
25 June 2021 - The Sun publishes CCTV stills from 6 May showing Mr Hancock embracing health department aide Ms Coladangelo, with whom he was having an extramarital affair, breaking his own Covid rules in the process.
26 June 2021 - Despite Mr Johnson saying he had accepted Mr Hancock’s apology and considered the matter “closed”, Mr Hancock resigns in disgrace, saying that those who make the rules must observe them, amid a storm of condemnation. He separates from his wife of 15 years, osteopath Martha Hoyer Millar, with whom he has three children.
12 October 2021 - Mr Hancock announces his appointment as the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa new special representative for financial innovation and climate change.
16 October 2021 Following objections to his hiring, the UN rescinds the job offer.
21 April 2022 - Forthcoming publication of Mr Hancock’s diaries announced by Biteback, a juicy prospect for those interested in the Johnson years in No 10.
24 October 2022 - Embarrassingly snubbed by new PM Rishi Sunak on the steps of Conservative Party headquarters as he celebrates his ascension with well-wishers. Mr Hancock’s return to the frontbench suddenly looks unlikely.
1 November 2022 - Reported to be a contestant on 22nd series of ITV’s I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here and swiftly suspended as an MP by his party.
1 March 2023 - Fights claims he rejected advice while health secretary to give Covid tests to all residents going into English care homes. The allegations were based on a trove of more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages obtained by The Daily Telegraph giving an insight into the way the government operated at the height of the pandemic.
25 March 2023 - Mr Hancock and Kwasi Kwarteng tell a fake overseas company looking for MP advisers their daily rate for consultancy would be £10,000.
12 April 2023 - Placed under investigation by parliament’s standards commissioner – for allegedly “lobbying” the sleaze watchdog to influence its findings.
4 May 2023 - Received £10,000 for an appearance on Good Morning Britain (GMB) in which he said he did not “primarily” go on I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! for the money. He received the payment via Shine Talent Management Limited for two hours of work, according to the entry.
11 May 2023 - Former Tory MP Andrew Bridgen begins libel action against Mr Hancock following a row over a tweet. After Mr Bridgen tweeted that the Covid-19 vaccination programme was “the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust”, the former health secretary described his comments as “disgusting and dangerous antisemitic, anti-vax, anti-scientific conspiracy theories”.
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Boles re-appointed as Skills Minister in Cameron’s new government
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Nick Boles is to continue to serve as Skills Minister, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced. The newly-re-elected MP for Grantham and Stamford was called to Number 10 Downing Street a short while ago and joked with journalists on his way in. Mr Boles took over as Skills Minister last July when the previous minister Matthew Hancock
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Nick Boles is to continue to serve as Skills Minister, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced.
The newly-re-elected MP for Grantham and Stamford was called to Number 10 Downing Street a short while ago and joked with journalists on his way in.
Mr Boles took over as Skills Minister last July when the previous minister Matthew Hancock was promoted to attend cabinet as a business and energy minister.
The role will continue to be split between the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Department for Education and will include additional responsibilities for trade union and employment law.
Mr Hancock has now been appointed as Minister for the Cabinet Office, and will take charge of civil service reform.
It was confirmed earlier that Nicky Morgan will continue her work as Education Secretary and Sajid Javid will take on the role of Business Secretary in Mr Cameron’s majority Conservative government.
Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna and Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt remain in their jobs following a partial reshuffle of the shadow cabinet by acting Labour leader Harriet Harman.
See next week’s FE Week, dated May 18, for more information and reaction.
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He'll be answering questions under oath
West Suffolk MP Matt Hancock will become the latest high-profile politician to appear before the Covid-19 Inquiry, as hearings continue into Government preparedness for the pandemic.
The former health secretary, who became one of the best-known politicians in the country as he helped steer the coronavirus response before being forced to quit in June 2021, will give evidence to Lady Hallett’s inquiry on Tuesday morning.
His attendance at the inquiry comes after Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, another former health secretary, admitted that a “groupthink” helped lead to a “narrowness of thinking” that failed to expand pandemic preparedness beyond planning for a flu outbreak.
On Monday, former deputy chief medical officer Dame Jenny Harries was quizzed on the capacity of the UK health system as well as the organisational reforms before the Covid outbreak.
Mr Hancock, also known for his appearance last year on TV’s I’m A Celebrity, became health secretary in mid-2018 – but his political career was torpedoed after footage emerged in 2021 of his embrace with aide Gina Coladangelo.
He was central to the Government’s pandemic era decision-making and messaging, with his own recollections of the period likely to be a crucial part of the inquiry.
A leak of more than a 100,000 of his WhatsApp messages by journalist Isabel Oakeshott to the Daily Telegraph, many of which were published earlier this year, provided a glimpse into the inner workings of Government during the period.
The West Suffolk MP, who will stand down at the next general election, has faced questions in the past about the Government policy on Covid testing and nursing homes.
Former prime minister David Cameron, former chancellor George Osborne and chief medical officer Professor Sir Chris Whitty are all among those who have appeared before the committee so far.
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Matt Hancock thinks I’m a Celebrity is his way back into politics — after his jungle debut, he might be right
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The former health secretary once told David Cameron that his political outlook was "a mixed picture" - so was his first day in ITV's jungle
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Matt Hancock is in the I’m a Celebrity jungle: a better compensated version of the role he played as health secretary in the Covid pandemic and his stint in the ducking stool as disgraced Cabinet minister, caught in a passionate office clinch with his suave senior advisor Gina Coladangelo. As his old boss, the former Chancellor George Osborne, confided to friends: “My midlife crisis was better.”
Hancock is on the show because of his libidinous extra-office activity and because otherwise, evening telly would not give a toss about upper mid-rank ministers in a declining government. This last point explains why in his first episode last night, Matt was prepared to be covered in bugs and slime.
He was a toothy, engaging, public-schoolboy-turned-army-officer type – and a bit nicer and more clubbable than most of the viewers probably recall. “Very good skin,” observed Seann Walsh, his comedian co-sufferer (honestly, if you have done a top government job and been accused of messing up the early period of the pandemic, you will take that and feel happy).
Ant and Dec, the show’s ringmasters, mused that it was amazing that a former top minister was “washing creepy crawlies out of his butt-crack”. Given the present economic choices, I am not sure this is the worst option at all.
Matt was “happy to be here” and riffing off Wind in the Willows in his attire as a Mr Toad gilet-clad Uniqlo dude. He’s also quite good at this sort of hokum because (spoiler alert) politicians, even unpopular ones, are quite good at naff TV, because they exceed low expectations.
“My folks ran a small business,” said Matt in the middle of the foliage, for no apparent reason, other than to be mildly human and mid-market Tory. Hancock came across as a driven man – a flawed politician, capable of shaking off marriage to a very devoted wife, to move on to his next life.
This is also the “tell”: of a figure who does not think that failure is what the media village and political orthodoxy says it is. Encountering the star of the slime-show at a media event recently, I was struck by how unfazed he is about criticism: imagine yourself not giving a toss about the things your family, peers, and colleagues care about – and how liberating that can be. Voters might even remember your name afterwards.
“Why did you come in?” asked Scarlette Douglas, a TV presenter, serving up a clay pigeon to an expert shot. Hancock burbled something about politicians being not what we think they are. True story alert: they are exactly what you think they are.
It reminded me of David Cameron, Hancock’s first backer, inviting him for a consolatory whisky when his infidelity had been revealed in the embarrassing leak of his affair. The ex-PM expressed his sympathy, and cited the pressures of public life on relationships. “Yeah,” replied Hancock jauntily. ”It’s a mixed picture…”
In short, this is why Hancock is in the telly-jungle. He believes that a Tory politician, post-Cameron, post-Johnson, post-Brexit, post-Covid, post office grope, post everything, can via the magic of mass TV work his way back to post-defeat Tory politics. He might yet be right. “There are few ways to show that politicians are human beings,” mediated the reprobate. “I need to peel myself back a bit.”
“I am not sure reality TV is the way to do that,” countered Charlene White, a fellow jungler.
The Bushtucker trial, I can reveal, as a co-suffering panellist at BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze with Michael Buerk, who endured it, is properly hard. People who did it never shut up about the trauma.
“I can’t believe Matt Hancock is in the jungle,” commented Ant and Dec in the most scripted line of the most scripted mass TV show ever. I can, and so can David Cameron and anyone who knows Matt Hancock – and discerning viewers, so can you.
We left Matt in the “tentacles of terror”. It’s a mixed picture.
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Matt Hancock's lover and former aide Gina Coladangelo will fly out to Australia ahead of the former health secretary's appearance on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, MailOnline can reveal.
A source said they believe Ms Coladangelo will arrive Down Under next week, as anger mounts back home over the controversial gig which saw Mr Hancock kicked out of the parliamentary Conservative Party immediately after it was announced on Tuesday.
Bereaved families who lost loved ones to Covid have since launched a petition to demand he is removed from the hit ITV show, which has garnered more than 17,000 signatures. Mr Hancock had to quit government after he was caught flouting his own lockdown rules by kissing married Ms Coladangelo in his office.
The petition, launched by pressure group Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice, reads: 'Families were ripped apart by Matt Hancock's actions, and turning on the TV to see him being paraded around as a joke is sickening.
'If he had any respect for families who lost loved ones to Covid-19, he would be sharing his private emails with the Covid Inquiry, not eating bugs on TV.'
A separate probe is being launched into whether he should receive his taxpayer-funded £84,144 salary while in the jungle, as questions are raised over whether he followed the rules on seeking jobs within two years of leaving office.
'Fame junkie' Mr Hancock has already landed in Australia for I'm A Celebrity, however, and brazenly insisted he will still be serving his West Suffolk constituents – 10,270 miles away in the jungle camp.
But the former minister is in for a tough ride as MPs and his rivals in Parliament are plotting to ensure he is forced to do gruesome Bushtucker Trials 'every night'.
Landing in Brisbane this morning ahead of a week in isolation, Mr Hancock denied he had 'lost his marbles'.
Instead, he insisted he was flying Down Under so he could 'go to where the people are - not to sit in ivory towers in Westminster' - and claimed he will 'promote his dyslexia campaign' and make a donation to a hospice - but not his entire estimated £350,000 pay deal from ITV.
Incredibly the now independent MP insists he will still be doing his day job, meaning he will not forego his £84,144 taxpayer-funded salary for the duration of his trip.
He said: 'As an MP, my first priority is to my constituents. I have agreed with the show's producers that I can be reached at any point on any urgent constituency matters'.
Yesterday the Prime Minister said Mr Hancock was doing the opposite by going on the show.
Mr Hancock did not seek advice from the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba) before agreeing to the appearance, the PA news agency understands.
Lord Pickles, the Conservative chairman of the anti-corruption watchdog that advises on post-ministerial jobs, is expected to write to Mr Hancock to demand clarification.
Under the rules, Mr Hancock should seek clearance from Acoba for any new employment or appointments he takes on until next June.
A spokesman for Mr Hancock said the guidance 'was followed in good faith', adding: 'The Acoba website clearly states that it does not regard media appearances as an appointment or employment.'
But the website only says that 'one-off' activities are not applicable, with any 'longer-term arrangement' needing a request to Acoba.
Depending on how he fairs during public votes, Mr Hancock could remain in the jungle for weeks.
In April, Tory MP and former housing minister Esther McVey was found to have broken the rules for failing to seek Acoba's advice over her 'regular engagement' as a GB News presenter.
Mr Hancock can continue to pick up his taxpayer-funded salary as an MP while in the jungle.
But Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Sarah Olney said: 'The taxpayer should not pay him while he refuses to do his job.'
It comes after the father-of-three revealed he had twice been asked to appear on the show before but accepted the third offer because the government is now 'stable'.
Many have pondered whether he actually made up his mind when he was snubbed by new PM Rishi Sunak at his victory rally last week, which was tacit confirmation his career as a senior MP is over.
And millions are set to punish him for his decision – including MPs.
One former minister has threatened 'to vote for him to eat armadillo c**k every night'.
Transport Secretary Mark Harper said he should 'step down' as a MP and did not deny he would also vote for Mr Hancock to face Bushtucker Trials, smiling as he said: 'That will be between me and my phone.'
Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said: 'We are going to make sure on a cross-party basis that Matt Hancock gets a fill of every creepy crawly in that jungle'.
In Mr Hancock's constituency, Andy Drummond, the cheesed off deputy chairman of the local Conservative Association, said: 'I'm looking forward to him eating a kangaroo's penis'.
And local Tory councillor Ian Houlder said Mr Hancock has 'no shame', a view shared by many, not least the families of 200,000-plus Covid victims who say he is 'cashing in' on the pandemic.
'Everybody knows what he did during the Covid pandemic and he seems to want to rehabilitate himself all the time in the public eye,' Mr Houlder said. 'He's got a skin as thick as a rhinoceros, quite frankly.'
PR expert Mark Borkowski told MailOnline: 'Hancock is desperate for the visibility or the money... if it's the money I'd expect £350,000 – he should be very careful what he wishes for.'
He added: 'He believes this will kick-start a career as a sad extra. Jumping on the flight to enter the jungle proves he is a fame junkie'.
Writing in The Sun, Mr Hancock said: 'Some may think I've lost my marbles or had one too many drinks, swapping the comfortable surroundings of Westminster and West Suffolk for the extreme conditions of the Australian outback, going where there will be few creature comforts, not enough food, and a load of physical tasks involving snakes, spiders and plenty of other creepy-crawlies.
'While there will undoubtedly be those who think I shouldn't go, I think it's a great opportunity to talk directly to people who aren't always interested in politics, even if they care very much about how our country's run.
'I thought long and hard about this – in fact I turned down I'm A Celebrity... twice this summer – but when they approached me for a third time last week, I had a change of heart.'
He added: 'And no, it wasn't the cheque that changed my mind. I will be making a donation to St Nicholas Hospice in Suffolk and causes supporting dyslexia off the back of my appearance.
'I will, of course, also declare the amount I receive from the show to Parliament to ensure complete transparency, as normal.
'When I was first approached to take part - while I was flattered and naturally curious - it didn't take me too long to turn the opportunity down because of the instability government was facing at the time.
'Now though, the government is stable. Rishi Sunak has made a great start and I know he has got what it takes to be a superb PM.'
In the jungle, Mr Hancock will be joining pop star Boy George, Coronation Street's Sue Cleaver, Hollyoaks' Owen Warner, TV presenter and property expert Scarlette Douglas, former England rugby player Mike Tindall, Loose Women star Charlene White, radio presenter Chris Moyles, reality TV star Olivia Attwood, former footballer Jill Scott and comedian Babatunde Aleshe.
As well as being stripped of the party whip, campaigners for families bereaved in the Covid-19 pandemic accused Mr Hancock of trying to 'cash in on his terrible legacy'.
Mr Harper told Sky News: 'The chief whip has made the position clear, which is he's made a decision that going on I'm a Celebrity is not compatible with doing your job properly as a Member of Parliament, which is why the whip has been taken away, and as a former chief whip I completely support those decisions taken by my successor to support him standing down as an MP.'
Pressed on whether Mr Hancock should stand down as an MP, Mr Harper said: 'What he chooses to do in the future is a matter for him.'
The response at Westminster was swift after news Mr Hancock would join the show which starts on Sunday.
Chief whip Simon Hart said: 'Following a conversation with Matt Hancock, I have considered the situation and believe this is a matter serious enough to warrant suspension of the whip with immediate effect.'
One Tory MP described Mr Hancock as an 'absolute prat'.
Tory MP Tim Loughton said Mr Hancock had been an 'absolute prat'.
'I'm completely disappointed and disgusted that he's put his self and a so-called celebrity career ahead of serving his constituents,' he told Times Radio.
The Prime Minister's official spokesman said it was 'unlikely' Mr Sunak would be watching the programme.
'The PM believes that at a challenging time for the country MPs should be working hard for their constituents whether that is in the House or in their constituency,' they said.
Mr Hancock was forced to quit as health secretary in June 2021 after breaking coronavirus social distancing rules by conducting an affair in his ministerial office with his then aide Ms Coladangelo.
Mr Hancock was among supporters of Mr Sunak who welcomed the new leader to Conservative headquarters last week but was overlooked for a ministerial job under the new Prime Minister.
He had also reportedly been considering a run to be chairman of the Commons Treasury Committee but pulled out of the race on Monday.
An ally of Mr Hancock said: 'There are many ways to do the job of being an MP.
'Whether he's in camp for one day or three weeks, there are very few places people will be able to see a politician as they really are.
'Where better to show the human side of those who make these decisions than with the most watched programme on TV?
'Politicians like Matt must go to where the people are - particularly those who are politically disengaged.
'Matt's of the view that we must embrace popular culture.
'Rather than looking down on reality TV, we should see it for what it is - a powerful tool to get our message heard by younger generations.'
The ally said producers of the show have agreed that Mr Hancock can communicate with constituency staff if there is an urgent matter in West Suffolk.
He will make a donation to St Nicholas Hospice in Suffolk and he will also be required to declare the amount he receives from the show to Parliament.
Mr Hancock initially turned down the offer to take part because of the political chaos at Westminster.
But since Mr Sunak became Prime Minister the former health secretary believes 'the government is stable'.
But his decision to enter the jungle drew criticism from political opponents, union chiefs and campaigners.
Lobby Akinnola, from the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice campaign, said: 'Matt Hancock isn't a 'celebrity', he's the former health secretary who oversaw the UK having one of the highest death tolls in the world from Covid-19 whilst breaking his own lockdown rules.
'The fact that he is trying to cash in on his terrible legacy, rather than showing some humility or seeking to reflect on the appalling consequences of his time in Government, says it all about the sort of person he is.'
SNP MP Pete Wishart said: 'It speaks volumes that Matt Hancock would rather be stranded in a remote jungle eating kangaroo testicles than spend a moment longer on the Tory benches at Westminster, as Rishi Sunak's government lurches from one crisis to another.'
Shadow health minister Andrew Gwynne said: 'To be fair to Matt Hancock, I'd sooner eat wallaby anus than be a Tory MP too.'
The House of Commons is in recess from November 10-14, but celebrities could spend up to three weeks in the jungle.
It means Mr Hancock would miss significant Commons business, including the Autumn Statement on November 17 if he remains in the contest.
Dave Penman, general secretary of the FDA union which represents senior civil servants, said: 'Oh to have a job where you can decide for yourself you're taking a month off, abandon your work and responsibilities, get paid shedloads and face little consequence.
'I'm sure he'll be an inspiration to other public servants.'
From shamed Health Secretary to Bushtucker trials in the Australian jungle: How father-of-three Tory MP Matt Hancock became household name during Covid pandemic before he was caught having affair with aide
Already possibly one of the nation's better known politicians for his role as health secretary during a once-in-a-century pandemic, Matt Hancock is about to encounter a whole new audience as he prepares to join I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!
Swapping the world of Westminster for jungle antics with Ant and Dec is certainly an unorthodox shift for the former minister, whose government career had an unfortunate ending after he resigned in the aftermath of his affair with an aide that broke his own coronavirus rules.
Only in recent days was Mr Hancock reportedly mulling a bid to become chair of the Treasury Select Committee, apparently opting instead for bushtucker trials instead of banks and bonds.
Appointed health secretary in 2018 after spending 18 months in the culture brief, he had been a prominent figure for the government during its handling of the coronavirus pandemic until his abrupt exit.
He had faced pressure to stand down after pictures emerged depicting the married minister appearing to kiss his adviser Gina Coladangelo, with CCTV images published in The Sun taken on May 6 when guidance on social distancing were still in place, with hugging between people from different households recommended against.
It was not the first time Mr Hancock had faced a negative headline during his time in office.
Around the same period, Boris Johnson's former aide Dominic Cummings had shared text messages in which Boris Johnson was said to have called the health secretary 'hopeless'.
Mr Cummings accused the senior minister of lying to the prime minister over promises to protect those in care homes during the first wave of Covid-19 infections by testing new residents before being admitted.
Mr Hancock dismissed claims he lied and called Mr Johnson's 'hopeless' jibe 'ancient history'.
Mr Hancock, who in 2018 became the only MP in British politics to launch his own app, took only eight years to rise from West Suffolk MP to health secretary.
The Oxford and Cambridge educated father-of-three previously worked as an economist at the Bank of England and as chief of staff to George Osborne when he was shadow chancellor of the exchequer, before taking a seat in the Commons.
The Cheshire-raised politician first attended cabinet after being appointed Minister for the Cabinet Office in 2015 by then prime minister David Cameron.
Mr Cameron's successor Theresa May later promoted him to the role of culture secretary.
The 42-year-old initially threw his hat into the ring to replace Mrs May in No 10 during the 2019 Conservative Party leadership contest but withdrew from the leadership race part way through and was quick to throw his weight behind Mr Johnson.
He was among the handful of ministers to retain his brief when Mr Johnson took power in July 2019, making him one of the most prominent ministers when coronavirus rocked Britain eight months later.
In his resignation video, he said that he was looking forward to 'supporting the government and the prime minister from the back benches to make sure that we can get out of this pandemic'.
After Boris Johnson's downfall this summer, he was an enthusiastic backer of Mr Sunak and speculation persisted that he still harboured a return to a Government role.
Even as Liz Truss's government crumbled, his advice from the sidelines did little to dampen that speculation.
'There's a huge amount of talent on the backbenches, I'm not talking about me, but there are many others that should be brought into Government,' he suggested as Ms Truss clung to power.
Once she resigned, he returned as a vocal Sunak backer - although his standing in the new leader's camp was brought into sharp relief after the victorious Mr Sunak appeared to blank the former health secretary, who stood waiting to greet him at the front of the crowd at Conservative HQ.
His decision to join I'm a Celebrity has already prompted mockery, as well as swift repercussions politically - Chief Whip Simon Hart said the situation was so serious he should have the right to sit as a Conservative suspended.
Allies said he would use his appearance to promote his backbench work on dyslexia, as he tried to 'embrace' popular culture.
'Politicians like Matt must go to where the people are - particularly those who are politically disengaged,' one ally said.
Others were less flattering.
Andy Drummond, deputy chairman (political) of West Suffolk Conservative Association, said: 'I'm looking forward to him eating a kangaroo's penis.
'Quote me. You can quote me that.'
So who'll be joining him in the jungle? Full I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here 2022 line-up including Mike Tindall, Boy George and Olivia Attwood
By Laura Fox for MailOnline
MIKE TINDALL MBE
Former rugby star Mike will become the first member of The Royal Family to compete on I'm A Celebrity, and given his regal connections, the sportsman has already predicted he will be voted to take part in all of the Trials.
Remaining tight-lipped on his biggest fear, Mike – who is married to Princess Anne's daughter Zara – says he knows as soon as his fellow rugby friends find out he is taking part in the hit ITV programme, they will be on speed dial to make sure he does all the trials.
'I am fully aware that anyone who has ever played rugby will go, ''Yeah let's stitch him up''. 'All my friendship group has that sort of humour and I know they will definitely want to vote for me! I am prepared to do quite a lot of challenges.'
Mike reveals his friend and former I'm A Celebrity star James Haskell, sang the programme's praises so much, he decided to finally say yes.
He added: 'It is sinking in now that I am taking part. I am ready to rumble! I have been asked on numerous occasions to take part. The timing was right this year and Hask (James) did the show and he had been talking about it.'
He went onto joke that he won't mind taking part in the famous eating trials because it's a chance to have some 'protein', adding: 'I am eight years out of the game now so I am a bit more realistic about food, but I know James said the lack of food can sometimes be hard.
'But at least with the eating trials, you get food in you! It might not taste very nice but at least it is serving a purpose and giving you a protein intake. Bring on those challenges.'
Describing himself as an 'open book,' Mike added: 'With a rugby game you know what you are going to get and when it gets hard, you know what it looks like.
'This is something you can't predict; you don't know where it will take you and so you can't really plan for it. Your ability to roll with the punches is something you have got to have. Hopefully I have that and I won't overthink things. Hopefully my personality suits this.'
The 2003 World Cup winner and MBE holder, who has three children with Zara, added 'first and foremost' he will miss his family.
He said: 'I will miss my bed too and a nice breakfast. I don't think I am too bothered about sleeping in a hammock but it will be interesting as I wouldn't say I am someone who falls asleep anywhere. But I have slept in a hammock before and it is something your body will get used to in time.'
BOY GEORGE
Legendary pop star Boy George has insisted that going on I'm A Celebrity will be a breeze compared to touring the world, declaring: 'It's just three weeks without any make-up on!'
He added: 'I watch I'm A Celebrity every year and I had to think long and hard about this. But I feel like I am in a very fertile creative moment in my life. I am in a moment of rediscovery of who I am as a person, artist and older man and I feel like I do make a lot of effort to be in pop culture.
'I am bored of being iconic in the corner and if you want to compete in the world then being part of telly is part of that. This is the biggest show on TV and that is why I am doing it.
'And now I have made the decision, I don't want to focus too much on what the experience might be like, but my intention is it is going to be amazing. It's three weeks without make-up and three weeks is nothing. I have just done seven weeks on tour.'
The Karma Chameleon performer, who is reportedly this year's highest paid contestant with a $1 million payday, added that he isn't fazed by the gruelling conditions, or the meagre diet as he is a vegetarian, but admitted he might miss espressos or his favourite cheeses.
He added: 'My biggest fear is being scared and the trials are not something I am particularly excited about. I will just laugh. I know they won't want to hurt me.
'But I don't want to be bored either and I will try to get the stars for everyone. I think I will be the in-house dietician when I am in the camp because I will be telling everyone they aren't going to let us starve. I will be telling everyone to calm down.'
OLIVIA ATTWOOD
Love Island 2017 star Olivia revealed that she is hoping to prove that she isn't 'high maintenance' and can survive without makeup on by taking part in the gruelling show, and has welcomed the forced 'digital detox' that will come with taking a month-long break from social media.
'Being part of I'm A Celebrity still hasn't sunk in yet and when I first got the call to take part, I didn't really believe it! It felt surreal because taking part in the jungle is the absolute pinnacle. It's the crème de la crème of all shows and obviously I didn't have to think about it. I said yes immediately!' she said.
'One of the things that will be nice will be to show a different side to me. I think people think I am high maintenance and I will struggle without make-up and nails but I am not that bothered and I think that might surprise people. I am happy to muck in.
'We are all prisoners to our phones and so it will be so nice to have this time in life where you are digitally disconnected for three weeks. It's going to be great to be completely immersed in the jungle environment and I am excited to see what I can do.'
Going onto joke she will look like a 'drowned rat' in the jungle shower, a far cry from the now-iconic bikini-clad Myleene Klass, Olivia added: 'I definitely will be packing a bikini. But I will look like a drowned rat in the shower. I don't know if I can live up to Myleene's iconic shower moment!'
'With Love Island, everyone is the same age and similar kind of people. But with I'm A Celebrity, it's going to be the vast variety of people that will be so different. I can't wait to meet them all and I am looking forward to hanging out with people you wouldn't normally hang out with in real life.'
CHRIS MOYLES
Chris, best known as one of the nation's biggest radio DJs, shared his disbelief around his decision to sign up for the show, confessing that he has a terrifying fear of heights that he'll no doubt have to face on the show.
'Some people say if something scares you, then do it, but I am a firm believer you shouldn't scare yourself! I am a big fan of my own comfort zone, too. I am petrified of heights and getting into camp will be a massive challenge for me. Even that rickety rope bridge makes my heart start going. I have never jumped out of a plane or walked out on a plank on a high rise building before and I know I have got to suck it all up. '
'In the past, I always said no to offers to take part. But this year, I didn't say no immediately, and I ended up going to a meeting. Now I don't know why I said yes. But I am a huge fan of the show and I know what I am letting myself in for! My friends who have done it before have told me I will have a great time.'
Chris, who has known hosts Ant and Dec for years, added that he knows they are going to take great delight in watching him squirm, adding: 'If Ant and Dec want to swap with me for 24-hours, I am happy for me and one other campmate to host the show whilst they live in the jungle. I am offering that up right now! Ant will be ok but Dec will probably struggle because he is just so small.
'I think they are going to be shocked when they find out I am doing it and hopefully delighted. The moment I see them, there could be a lot of giggling. I have known the boys for a long time and they are brilliant. I just have this vision in my head that I am going to be in a coffin with rats whilst Ant goes, ''How are you feeling?'' and I will reply, ''You know exactly how I am feeling, let's just get on with it you little terrors!''
Aside from missing his girlfriend, cats and his favourite tea, Yorkshireman Chris also admitted that it's going to be weird not presenting a radio show every morning, having been a regular on the airwaves for decades with his show on Radio 1 and Radio X.
'I am going to really miss it,' he said. 'It will be very weird to not do the show and see the team every day. There is a very worrying chance I might wake up at 6.30 and start talking for half an hour in camp as that is all I have been doing for the last 20 years!'
JILL SCOTT MBE
After helping the England Lionesses lift the trophy at the Women's Euro final in July, recently retired football star Jill Scott said she is looking forward to being part of a wholly different team in the jungle.
She went onto say: 'I haven't met Ant and Dec before but they are Newcastle fans, and I am Sunderland. I don't know if it will go down too well!'
Noting that she is disappointed to miss some of the men's World Cup during her time in the jungle, Jill added that her former England teammates will definitely be surprised to learn she is taking part in the show.
She said: 'I think my England teammates will be shocked when they find out. But I think they will say if there is a show for Jill to go on, because of the team side, then this is the one to do. 'People know me for my football and they see stupid videos of us, so this will be nice for people to get to know a bit more about my personality.'
Confessing she has a fear of rats and confined underground spaces, Jill went onto say : 'I am intrigued as to how I will react in the trials. I don't like rats or snakes and if I had to be underground that would be scary.
'That is literally like being buried alive! But I am looking forward to it all and meeting new people. I will help people if they are having a bad day. Everyone has got a story to tell and I love being part of a team. Hopefully we can create a good camp.'
CHARLENE WHITE
ITV newsreader and Loose Women anchor Charlene White has confessed she is already struggling with the prospect of spiders crawling over her while she sleeps in the camp.
She said: 'I was fine until they mentioned big spiders can crawl all over me when I am asleep which has freaked me out! I can't stop thinking about it.
'There aren't that many opportunities to have when you get older and it will be nice to see if I can do this. I've given birth to two kids in quick succession, survived that and lived to tell the tale! So, I feel it's now right to take on another big challenge.'
The mother-of-two went onto admit that she will find it tough being away from her family for such a long period of time, adding: 'I will definitely get teary. It's a foregone conclusion. I am going to miss our daily routine with the kids, I am going to miss waking up with them and having quiet time before the school run and that's what is going to get me tearing up. It will be weird.
'My partner is also mostly shocked I am doing this. We made the decision together but he was like, ''I have no idea how you are going to cope!'' I am not a ''need to wear make-up, nails'' kind of girl but I am not very outdoorsy. In fact, I know the fact I am volunteering to choose to sleep outside will come as a massive shock to everyone at work, too!'
She continued: 'It's going to be very strange not being able to find out what is happening in the world. The UK is on a constant cycle of change and by the time I have come out of the camp, we could have had another change of Government or another change of leader!
'Anything could happen in that time and I am going to find it very frustrating. I have a genuine love of current affairs and the first thing I do is check all the papers when I wake up. I will desperately be playing catch up when I come out.'
OWEN WARNER
Hollyoaks star Owen, best known for his role as Romeo Nightingale on the soap, admitted that being without his twice-weekly haircuts will be his biggest challenge in the jungle.
He joked: 'I have to get haircuts twice a week for work and I think not having them will be the biggest trial! I might come out looking like a different geezer.'
The soap star, who is single, also said he'll be on the lookout for love in the jungle, adding: 'I don't have a partner, I am always looking for love!'
Readily admitting the lack of food will prove problematic for the actor, Owen says he doesn't know how he will cope on rice and beans.
He said: 'I don't let myself go hungry at home. I will always have a snack. But I am not going to have the resources around me so I don't know how ''hangry'' I am going to get. My cooking skills are definitely not my best attribute but I do like entertaining. I like making up games on set.'
Describing himself as laid back, Owen says he doesn't think he will get wound up by his fellow campmates. But if they do step out of line, he will tell them.
'Hopefully I won't get wound up by everyone,' Owen said. 'If someone is out of order, then I will say something. But I don't want it to cause any tension and hopefully they will stop. I don't think I will cry either in the jungle but then again I cry at most films and sometimes even new food!
'It's going to be great to have a proper social detox in the camp too. I will enjoy having my phone completely taken away.'
BABATÚNDÉ ALÉSHÉ
Comedian Babatúndé admitted he will be doing a lot of screaming in the jungle as he faces up to his fears of 'absolutely everything.'
Revealing it took several attempts to persuade him to accept an offer because he is so scared, he says the thought of lying underground with rats, snakes and cockroaches being poured all over fills him with absolute horror.
He said: 'I am going to see what happens but I know I will be doing a lot of screaming for sure! I am not looking forward to any trials but in terms of the one I am dreading the most, I saw one where someone was lying in a box and they put things into the box like snakes and mice. Now that would freak me out. I think I will lose it!'
Describing himself as a great tension breaker, the funnyman said he is hoping to inject humour around the campfire, saying: 'I haven't got time for arguments. I know seeing me freaking out every five minutes will be entertaining for everyone but this will be a first-time experience for all of us and I think my role will be as a tension breaker. We don't need to be bickering behind each other's backs. We are all in the same boat together.'
Babtunde also said his pal and Celebrity Gogglebox co-star Mo Gilligan has found it hilarious that he will be taking part on the show.
He continued: 'I did confide in Mo. Mo thinks it is going to be funny but he also thinks it is good I am taking part. He is far too busy though to vote for me for the trials but in his head, he will be!'
SCARLETTE DOUGLAS
Scarlette, best known for hosting A Place In The Sun, said that she is hoping to prove to anyone who has doubted her success that it was all worthwhile by taking part in the show.
'If I were crowned Queen of the jungle, it would be such a big moment for me,' she said. 'I think I would lose it! I have always worked hard but for whatever reason some people have doubted me. And so, if I were to win this show, it would be for everyone who questioned me, tried to break me, or put me down.
'I don't know why they do but I keep showing that I can make it and be better than anyone imagined. It's so exciting to be part of this series and I was in shock when I got the call from ITV. This programme is always something I have wanted to do as I like to test myself. It's the cherry on the icing on the cake.'
'I will be the morale booster in camp and I will want to keep everyone's spirits up,' she continued. 'I think I will be alright with the food – it's everything else that comes with it which is tough.
Scarlette also confessed that she 'totally fancies' comedian, Mo Gilligan, and would love it if he were to enter the jungle but to be able to create a lovely bond with all the campmates is what she is most looking forward to.
Scarlette - who quit A Place In The Sun earlier this year - added that she hopes daytime fans of the series will show their support and vote for her.
She added: 'I don't know what my fellow A Place in the Sun presenters will think. I would like to hope they will be over the moon for me and that they will be rooting for me.
'I hope A Place in the Sun fans will all come together and vote for me. I would love that to be the case. I know it will be tough and I am going to really miss having no music as I know there will only be the sound of birds singing, but I am looking forward to it all now. It's suddenly sinking in!'
SUE CLEAVER
Best known for her role as the outspoken Eileen Grimshaw, Coronation Street star Sue said that she opted to sign up for the show to 'shake things up' ahead of her 60th birthday.
'Doing I'm A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! is never really something I considered doing before,' but the pandemic happened and then this year, I have just turned 59 and so I decided for my 59th, I was going to shake things up a bit.
'I realised I needed something that would challenge me and I thought this show would be good – and so that's why I am doing it.'
Sue - who has been written out of the soap whilst she flies out to Australia - went onto reveal she confided in her co-stars, Simon Gregson and Jennie McAlpine, who have both taken part in the series before, to make sure they also thought she would enjoy the experience.
'I have spoken to Jennie and Simon,' Sue continued. 'They seemed to think I will have an absolute ball. They have told me I will love it and have a great time. It is very positive and I am going there feeling excited.'
Going onto discuss about how excited her family are for her, Sue revealed that she is set to welcome her fourth grandchild, with the bundle of joy due to arrive just two days before she enters the jungle.
She added: 'My family are really proud. We have got three grandkids watching and one that will arrive a couple of days before I fly to Australia. I might not see the baby by the time I have gone…but that is going to spur me on, thinking everyone at home will be watching.
'I am very much a homebody and I am wrapped up with my family and that is going to be the biggest pull for me, but my husband and son are going to be flying out to Australia to meet me.'
I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! returns on Sunday, November 9 at 9pm on ITV.
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Following her decision to leak messages sent by Matt Hancock at the height of the Covid pandemic, freelance journalist Isabel Oakeshott finds herself at the centre of a political row - and not for the first time.
In 2015, she co-wrote a biography of David Cameron, Call Me Dave, which included the eye-catching but unsubstantiated claim that the then prime minister had taken part in a lurid initiation ceremony involving a dead pig's head while at university.
She got another politician in trouble when in 2011 she revealed that Liberal Democrat minister Chris Huhne had persuaded his wife Vicky Pryce to take his speeding points.
Mr Huhne was subsequently jailed for eight months for perverting the course of justice.
A vehement supporter of the UK leaving the EU, she helped millionaire and Brexit campaigner Arron Banks write his account of the referendum campaign entitled The Bad Boys of Brexit.
During the writing of the book, she was given access to Mr Banks' emails which she later published arguing it was in the public interest to do so.
In 2019, the UK's ambassador to the United States Sir Kim Darroch was forced to resign after Ms Oakeshott obtained emails in which he was critical of Donald Trump.
In the secret cables, he labelled the then-American President as "inept", "insecure" and "incompetent".
'Marmite journalist'
Ms Oakeshott denied that the story was linked to her relationship with Brexit campaigner Richard Tice, who it had been suggested was keen to get the US ambassador job.
Mr Tice, now leader of the Reform UK Party, tweeted: "Conspiracy theorists who think I want US Ambassador job totally wrong. Ridiculous suggestion! But other senior pro Brexit businessperson would do great job promoting U.K. and securing quick trade deal."
Before her relationship with Mr Tice, Ms Oakeshott had three children from a previous marriage.
She started out as a reporter at the East Lothian Courier and rose to become the first female political editor at the Sunday Times, and later editor-at-large at the Daily Mail.
She has also written several books including three with the Conservative donor and former member of the House of Lords Michael Ashcroft about UK defence, the NHS and the biography of David Cameron.
Mr Ashcroft owns Biteback, the company which published Mr Hancock's Pandemic Diaries.
Fellow journalist and Talk TV broadcaster Julia Hartley-Brewer describes Ms Oakeshott as a "marmite journalist".
"Some love to love her, some love to hate her, everyone has an opinion but she is a damn good journalist - she gets scoops."
Lockdown critic
The Guardian's Media Editor Jim Waterson said Conservative officials have been "astonished Matt Hancock decided to give all of his personal messages to someone who very publicly opposed most of his policy platform when it came to lockdown".
Lord Bethell, a health minister during the pandemic, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I think Isabel is a terrific journalist. She's not a very good friend."
During the coronavirus pandemic, she became a fierce critic of lockdown rules.
Writing in the Spectator last year she said: "My blood still boils when I think of the unnecessary suffering: the broken homes and broken businesses; the lost last moments with loved ones; the missed cancers and operations; a generation of children scarred forever.
"This country paid a catastrophic price for what I see as a reckless overreaction to a disease that was only life-threatening to a small number of people who could have been protected without imprisoning the entire population."
She acknowledged some would be surprised by her decision to work with Mr Hancock on his book, Pandemic Diaries, but said she was driven by a desire to "get to the truth".
She also said she was "not paid a penny for this work" but added: "The time I spent on the project - almost a year - was richly rewarding in other ways."
In the past few days she has strongly defended her decision to publish texts given to her during the writing of the book saying it was in the "overwhelming national interest".
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Matt Hancock will have "overall responsibility for the policy and work" of the Cabinet Office but is not a full Cabinet minister, the government has confirmed, as more details on his role emerged this afternoon.
The new minister for the Cabinet Office, who replaces Francis Maude, was appointed yesterday as David Cameron put the finishing touches to his ministerial team following the Conservatives' general election victory.
There was some confusion yesterday over the precise role former business minister Hancock would play, when Cameron announced that Oliver Letwin – previously minister for policy in the Cabinet Office – would now be in "overall charge" of the department, a responsibility which previously fell to Maude. It has now emerged that Hancock will have the same policy remit as his predecessor, but will report to Oliver Letwin.
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A description of Hancock's role provided by the Cabinet Office today in an updated ministerial profile matches that previously given to Maude, and includes responsibility for the civil service; public sector efficiency and reform; public sector industrial relations; government transparency; cyber security; and civil society.
The Cabinet Office this afternoon confirmed to CSW that while Hancock will be Cabinet-attending, he is a minister of state, with Letwin serving as the full Cabinet minister for the department.
Letwin, who continues as chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster – a largely ceremonial title – now starts work in his first full Cabinet post. A Tory MP since 1997, he served as a key behind-the-scenes player in the previous government, overseeing initiatives including the new network of 'What Works' research centres to support evidence-based policy.
There has been further reaction to Hancock's appointment since it was announced yesterday, with the Reform think tank this afternoon saying the new minister had taken on "one of the toughest jobs in government".
"Whitehall shrugged off Francis Maude's reform plan with ease," Reform's deputy director Richard Harries said. "The challenge now is to restart that process, build on the more successful elements like mutualisation, and continue to drive out efficiencies across departments."
Dave Penman of the FDA union meanwhile called on Hancock to demonstrate "clear vision" of how the Conservatives' plans for an estimated £30bn of public spending cuts would be met, warning that the civil service "cannot simply be treated as a tool for deficit reduction".
He added: "If it is to be smaller but more able, the government needs to outline how it will provide civil servants with the recognition, reward and resources they need to deliver the services the public expects.”
The prime minister chaired the first meeting of his new-look Cabinet this morning, announcing that he would be putting two bills – one lowering the benefit cap to £23,000 per year to fund apprenticeships and one doubling the amount of free childcare people are entitled to – at the heart of the first Queen's Speech of the parliament.
Meanwhile, Cabinet secretary Jeremy Heywood has said it will be "business as usual" for the civil service following the election of the new government.
In a post on his GOV.UK blog, Heywood said Whitehall stood "ready to support and implement the policies of the incoming administration", and praised the civil service for its "professionalism, integrity and impartiality" during the election campaign.
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Ancaster Old Township HallDoors Open Hamilton Region
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Ancaster Old Township Hall
Enjoy a look inside the Ancaster Old Township Hall. Built in 1871 by William H. Thuresson, it is one of the finest pieces of stone architecture in Ancaster – complete with original apron stage, hardwood floors, arched windows and historically accurate colours. It has undergone several renovations over the years, but the original character remains.
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310 Wilson Street
Ancaster, Ontario
Email: fieldcote@hamilton.ca
https://www.hamilton.ca/attractions/hamilton-civic-museums/fieldcote-memorial-park-museum
Architecture
Year built: 1871
Building type: Historical landmark
Architect: William H. Thuresson
Dates/hours open
Aug 10 - Aug 10
Auchmar Manor HouseDoors Open Hamilton Region
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Auchmar Manor House
The Auchmar Estate is considered to be the last surviving country estate on Hamilton Mountain. It was built for the Honourable Isaac Buchanan, a local Scotsman, entrepreneur, politician and civic leader in 19th-century Canada. Visit this Gothic revival manor house and learn about its storied past before strolling the walled and landscaped grounds that surround it. No parking on site.
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Kid-friendly
Self-guided tours available
Site is protected by the Ontario Heritage Trust
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Kid-friendly
Site is protected by the Ontario Heritage Trust
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88 Fennell Avenue West (at West 5th Street)
Hamilton, Ontario
Email: Richard.Barlas@hamilton.ca
http://www.friendsofauchmar.ca
Architecture
Year built: 1852-54
Building type: Historical landmark Historical house
Dates/hours open
May 04 - May 05
Balfour House (Chedoke Estate)Doors Open Hamilton Region
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Balfour House (Chedoke Estate)
Balfour House is Hamilton’s last great escarpment estate. Several prominent Hamiltonians have called it home since 1836, most recently the family of St. Clair Balfour. Owned by the Ontario Heritage Trust and managed by the City of Hamilton, the building and garden are spectacular. Exhibits related to the commitment to music of the Southam family will be on display.
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Guided tours available
Parking
Site is protected by the Ontario Heritage Trust
Washrooms
Photography allowed
Videos
Site is protected by the Ontario Heritage Trust
Contact info
1 Balfour Drive
Hamilton, Ontario
Email: abuhrmann@cardus.ca
Architecture
Year built: 1836-38
Building type: Historical house
Dates/hours open
May 04 - May 05
Battlefield House Museum & Park National Historic SiteDoors Open Hamilton Region
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Battlefield House Museum & Park National Historic Site
Battlefield House Museum, part of which dates to 1796, was once home to the prominent Gage family. Learn about the stories of the people who built the house and the ongoing efforts to preserve and restore it. Explore the Dunington Grubb landscape (which includes the impressive Battlefield Monument) and hike around a 13.8-hectare (34-acre) patchwork of meadow and forest.
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Parking
Partial wheelchair access
Site has blue and gold provincial plaque
Site is protected by the Ontario Heritage Trust
Washrooms
Photography allowed
Videos
National Historic Site (Canada)
Site has blue and gold provincial plaque
Site is protected by the Ontario Heritage Trust
Contact info
77 King Street West
Stoney Creek, Ontario
Email: Richard.Barlas@hamilton.ca
https://www.hamilton.ca/battlefield
Architecture
Year built: 1796
Building type: Attraction Historical landmark Historical house Museum
Dates/hours open
May 05 - May 05
Cotton Factory, TheDoors Open Hamilton Region
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Cotton Factory, The
The Imperial Cotton Factory, built in 1900, ran as a factory until 1972. It has been repurposed as the largest creative hub in the Hamilton area — with studios for artists, artisans, musicians, craftspeople and entrepreneurs. Film and television productions, photographers and special events are also drawn here. This year's Door's Open Hamilton is also the Cotton Factory's 10th anniversary.
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2024 theme: Adaptive reuse
Full wheelchair access
Kid-friendly
Parking
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Washrooms
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Kid-friendly
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270 Sherman Avenue North
Hamilton, Ontario
Email: laura@cottonfactory.ca
https://www.cottonfactory.ca
Architecture
Year built: 1900
Building type: Commercial Green building
Architect: E.B. Patterson
Dates/hours open
May 04 - May 05
Downtown Hamilton Memory Lane Virtual TourDoors Open Hamilton Region
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Downtown Hamilton Memory Lane Virtual Tour
There are many ways to help educate a community about its history, but there is no better way than to encourage people to get out and experience it firsthand. When in-person walking tours were not possible, the Downtown Hamilton Business Improvement Association (BIA) created an initiative called Memory Lane. Memory Lane offers an in-depth self-guided tour with scannable QR codes. All you have to do to get started is to search out the QR codes across the BIA and scan them to reveal the history of that property, complete with vintage photos provided by Hamilton Public Libraries’ Local History and Archives department. Alternatively, you can navigate Memory Lane online and explore the past from the comfort of your home.
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Self-guided tours available
Contact info
Start at 1 King Street West
Hamilton, Ontario
Email: engage.with@downtownhamilton.org
Architecture
Year built: Various
Architect: Various
Dates/hours open
Aug 10 - Aug 10
Dundurn National Historic Site — Dundurn CastleDoors Open Hamilton Region
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Dundurn National Historic Site — Dundurn Castle
Dundurn Castle is one of the finest examples of high regency-style architecture in the country. Constructed in the 1830s for Sir Allan Napier MacNab (railway magnate, lawyer and politician), the buildings deteriorated under subsequent owners, but were restored in the 1960s to their original splendour. Today, Dundurn Castle tells the story of the MacNabs and the people who served them.
Digital Doors Open
Full wheelchair access
Kid-friendly
National Historic Site (Canada)
Parking
Self-guided tours available
Site has blue and gold provincial plaque
Site is protected by the Ontario Heritage Trust
Washrooms
Photography allowed
Videos
Virtual tours
Kid-friendly
National Historic Site (Canada)
Site has blue and gold provincial plaque
Site is protected by the Ontario Heritage Trust
Contact info
610 York Blvd.
Hamilton, Ontario
Email: Richard.Barlas@hamilton.ca
https://www.hamilton.ca/dundurn
Architecture
Year built: 1835
Building type: Historical landmark Historical house Museum
Architect: Robert Wetherell
Dates/hours open
May 04 - May 04
Griffin House National Historic SiteDoors Open Hamilton Region
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Griffin House National Historic Site
Griffin House is a modest one-and-a-half-storey wood-frame residence that was built in the Georgian style with clapboard siding and six-over-six sash windows. Constructed by Englishmen in 1827, it was purchased by Enerals Griffin and his wife Priscilla in 1834 – both born as slaves in Virginia, but who escaped to Canada. On this site, with their 20 hectares (50 acres) of land, the Griffin family lived as part of the Ancaster community for 150 years. Today, Griffin House stands as a testament to the determination of African-American men and women who escaped slavery and found peace in Ontario. For Digital Doors Open, watch the video below to learn more about this fascinating property.
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National Historic Site (Canada)
Site is protected by the Ontario Heritage Trust
Contact info
733 Mineral Springs Road
Ancaster, Ontario
https://www.hamilton.ca/attractions/hamilton-civic-museums/griffin-house-national-historic-site
Architecture
Year built: 1827
Building type: Museum
Dates/hours open
Aug 10 - Aug 10
Hamilton Museum of Steam & Technology National Historic SiteDoors Open Hamilton Region
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Hamilton Museum of Steam & Technology National Historic Site
The Hamilton Museum of Steam & Technology is the site of the original 1859 Hamilton Waterworks. The museum features two 13.7-metre high (45 feet), 70-ton steam-powered pumping engines that supplied the city with clean drinking water from 1859 to 1910. Made in Dundas, these engines are the oldest surviving examples of their kind in North America today.
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Kid-friendly
National Historic Site (Canada)
Parking
Washrooms
Photography allowed
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Videos
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Kid-friendly
National Historic Site (Canada)
Contact info
900 Woodward Avenue
Hamilton, Ontario
Email: Richard.Barlas@hamilton.ca
https://www.hamilton.ca/steammuseum
Architecture
Year built: 1859
Building type: Historical landmark Museum
Architect: Thomas Coltrin Keefer
Dates/hours open
May 05 - May 05
MacNab Presbyterian ChurchDoors Open Hamilton Region
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MacNab Presbyterian Church
The MacNab Presbyterian Church was completed in 1857 during a cholera epidemic. The exterior is solid stone masonry with an updated slate roof. After the First World War, nine-window stained-glass windows by the Scottish artists William Wilson and James Ballantyne were installed. The sanctuary has stone walls and columns, blonde wood and a magnificent Casavant organ.
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Kid-friendly
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Partial wheelchair access
Self-guided tours available
Washrooms
Photography allowed
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Kid-friendly
Contact info
116 MacNab Street South
Hamilton, Ontario
Email: macnabsec@cogeco.ca
https://macnabpresbyterian.ca
Architecture
Year built: 1854; 1935
Building type: Place of worship
Architect: William Thomas (1857); Albert Hills (1930s); Stewart McPhie and William Somerville (1935 addition)
Dates/hours open
May 04 - May 04
McMaster University Campus Architecture TourDoors Open Hamilton Region
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McMaster University Campus Architecture Tour
The McMaster Museum of Art has developed a self-guided walking tour that highlights architecture on the campus, with information about the history, evolution and styles of architecture along the way. Access the tour here, with photographs sourced from McMaster’s digital archives. You can follow the text descriptions or use headphones and be guided by recorded audio.
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Kid-friendly
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Start at the McMaster Museum of Art on Sterling Street
Hamilton, Ontario
Email: shawl17@mcmaster.ca
Architecture
Year built: Various
Architect: Various
Dates/hours open
May 06 - May 07
Piggott BuildingDoors Open Hamilton Region
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Piggott Building
Built in 1920 at the cost of $1 million, the iconic Piggott Building was Hamilton's first skyscraper. The structure employed a steel skeleton rather than load-bearing walls to achieve the height of 64 metres (210 feet) and 18 storeys. With a limestone veneer façade, its design is art deco/Gothic revival with historical features of pointed arch windows, decorative moldings and rib vaulting over the entrance. In the foyer and lobby are facing stained-glass windows set in medieval-style lancets that depict building technology and construction of the Piggott. In addition, there are decorative ceiling tiles and painted murals in the hall and marble on the floors, walls and surrounding the elevator doors. The tower prospered as an office building until the 1970s when it became vacant. After changing hands a number of times, it was slated for demolition. But heritage advocates called for its protection and preservation and the City of Hamilton designated it in 1984 under the Ontario Heritage Act. The stained-glass windows that had disappeared were found in an antique shop and retrieved by the Heritage Hamilton Foundation for $12,000. In the 1990s, the Piggott Building was converted into luxury condos. As part of Digital Doors Open, watch the video below to learn more about the history of this site.
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36 James Street South
Hamilton, Ontario
Architecture
Year built: 1929
Building type: Historical landmark
Architect: Bernard Prack and Fred Prack
Dates/hours open
Aug 10 - Aug 10
Shawn & Ed Brewing CompanyDoors Open Hamilton Region
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Shawn & Ed Brewing Company
This 1885-86 building in the heart of Dundas has been a foundry, indoor skating/curling rink, bus depot, warehouse and, since 2016, this brewery. The wood post-and-beam/brick masonry structure has been preserved yet modernized with the latest in craft beer equipment. The brewery focuses on German-style lagers with an emphasis on quality and authenticity.
Digital Doors Open
2024 theme: Adaptive reuse
Full wheelchair access
Guided tours available
Parking
Washrooms
Photography allowed
Collections and resources
Contact info
65 Hatt Street
Dundas, Ontario
Email: taproom@lagershed.com
https://www.lagershed.com
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Year built: 1860s; renovated: 2015-16
Building type: Commercial Food and drink
Architect: Peter Brass, Hamilton (1885-86); Richard Todd Wilson (2015 renovation)
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May 04 - May 04
Stewart & Witton Major Works: Stadium Neighbourhood Walking TourDoors Open Hamilton Region
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Stewart & Witton Major Works: Stadium Neighbourhood Walking Tour
The Friends of St. Giles present their first walking tour: Stewart & Witton Major Works: Stadium Neighbourhood, which will feature the architecture firm behind some of Hamilton’s most beloved landmarks, now in their 150th year. Enjoy four beautiful and irreplaceable Stewart & Witton works: the elegant Playhouse Cinema, the Hendry’s Building (home to Hendry’s Barbershop and the Barton Village BIA), the King George School and St. Giles Church (Stewart & Witton’s Gothic-revival masterpiece). All works on this 1.5-hour self-guided tour were designed in the 1910s by the firm, which operated from 1904 until Lt.-Col. Stewart’s death in France at The Battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917. For Digital Doors Open, follow the tour via the map above or visit their website. #StewartWitton150
Digital Doors Open
Activities and games
Self-guided tours available
Contact info
Start at the Playhouse Cinema (177 Sherman Avenue North)
Hamilton, Ontario
https://stewartandwitton.ca/tours
Architecture
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Aug 10 - Aug 10
Superior Court of Justice Family Court (former Hamilton Public Library)Doors Open Hamilton Region
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Superior Court of Justice Family Court (former Hamilton Public Library)
The former Carnegie Hamilton Public Library (1913-80), which now houses the Supreme Court of Justice Family Court, was constructed with a grant of $100,000 from American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and officially opened on May 5, 1913 by the Lieutenant Governor (and fellow-Hamiltonian) Sir John Morison Gibson. This library, which offered visitors open shelving for the first time, was moved after six decades of service to its current location on York Street next to the Jackson Square complex. Designed by local architect A.W. Peene in the neoclassical style, its outstanding architectural features include two-storey pilasters, massive corner piers, the entablature with dentillated cornice and a prominent staired entranceway. A central two-storey atrium with marble balustrade, double staircase and skylight unifies the interior and provides a spacious and elegant entrance lobby. In 1987, it was designated by the City of Hamilton as a significant heritage landmark and one of the finest surviving Carnegie libraries in Canada. For Digital Doors Open, learn more about the history of this building through the video below.
Digital Doors Open
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55 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario
https://www.ontariocourts.ca/scj/family/court-services
Architecture
Year built: 1913
Building type: Courthouse Library
Architect: A.W. Peene
Dates/hours open
Aug 10 - Aug 10
The WestdaleDoors Open Hamilton Region
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The Westdale
This was Hamilton’s first theatre built expressly to show “talkies” — motion pictures with sound. The beautiful art deco building was fully restored in 2017 by the Westdale Cinema Group and has become a cinematic, cultural and economic hub. The excellent film series Hamilton Originals will be shown on Saturday, while the site will be open for tours on Sunday.
Digital Doors Open
Food vendors
Full wheelchair access
Self-guided tours available
Washrooms
Photography allowed
Rental opportunities
Videos
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1014 King Street West
Hamilton, Ontario
Email: info@thewestdale.ca
https://www.thewestdale.ca
Architecture
Year built: 1935
Building type: Theatre
Architect: Unknown
Dates/hours open
May 05 - May 05
Westfield Heritage VillageDoors Open Hamilton Region
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Westfield Heritage Village
Westfield Heritage Village, a living history museum, consists of over 35 restored historical buildings dating from the early 1800s. Various building types are positioned as a small village within a natural conservation area of over 202 hectares (500 acres). The village was started by two high school teachers – D. Glenn Kilmer and Golden L. MacDonell – who purchased the original 12-hectare (30-acre) site to create an outdoor museum preserving 19th-century rural life. They purchased their first building, the Jerseyville Train Station, outbidding a local farmer who wanted it for his farm as an outbuilding. Six more buildings were added before it was officially opened in 1964. Some 30 buildings later, the village is a thriving cultural centre that features educational programs and events year-round. Take a virtual tour of this spectacular site in the video below.
Digital Doors Open
Videos
Kid-friendly
Site is protected by the Ontario Heritage Trust
Contact info
1049 Kirkwall Road (Regional Road 552)
Rockton, Ontario
Email: westfield@conservationhamilton.ca
https://westfieldheritage.ca
Architecture
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Building type: Attraction Museum
Architect: Various
Dates/hours open
Aug 10 - Aug 10
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For the Best of the City, find out what to do, see, eat, where to shop and explore with this year's Vist Hamilton guide
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Located approximately 700 kilometres from the coast, west of Rockhampton, the town is named after the "long reach" of the Thomson River on which it is situated. The town is on the Tropic of Capricorn, with the main industries being cattle, sheep, and, more recently, tourism.
Longreach is the heart of the Queensland Outback and is known for it's history, rich heritage. If you've always dreamed of visiting Australia's heartland in Outback Queensland, it's time seize the day and head for the bush! For the nature lovers, pitch a tent and camp under the stars orif you're like me, book a room with air-conditioned comfort... whatever your preference, Longreach offers visitors plenty of choice.
So now you've made the decision to go, what can you expect from this gem of a town? Lots of iconic attractions set in incredible natural landscape... that's what!
First on the list and a must see is Camden Park Station – a fifth generation, family sheep and cattle property run by the Walker family. Their homesteadhas been opened up to locals and tourists alike to immerse themselves in what can only be described as truly unique and memorable experience. Spend an amazing day learning the history at the homestead which was once visited by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip. See the path royalty has walked and view the grand ballroom they once visited. Let Outback Dan guide you on one of the tours vary and take in the Swagman's Grave, the Historic 'dry bottom' Chainman's Well, Artesian Spring and Bore, Longreach's Highest Lookout, The 'Queen's Path' and of course, the oldest Private Ballroom in the Outback!
Then there's Outback Pioneers' Nogo Station Experience - an historic homestead... think cattle thieves, sheep shearing, and a home cooked morning tea and you've got the Outback Pioneers' Nogo Station Experience. The station experience gives visitors a glimpse into life on an outback station – from the times of Captain Starlight in the 1800s to the modern day! The tour departs from Longreach and the Outback Pioneers' Nogo Station Experience brings outback history and a contemporary working station together to tell an important part of Australia’s story. As you make your journey to the station, you will begin to learn the history of the region and the property, including its ties to infamous cattle thief, Harry Redford (aka Captain Starlight). You will be shown the ruins of the stockyards, which are said to have been purpose-built by Captain Starlight to hold his mob of stolen cattle while he rebranded them before droving them to South Australia to sell. Wander around the house and view some of the rooms as they may have looked back in the day, with each room telling a story on what country life was and, in many ways, still is today.
For something a bit different, why not take in a cemetery tour? Cemeteries hold amazing stories of our past and what better way to find out how those dear departed helped shape the town's history.
The tour is a 75 minute historical tour where you will hear the stories of the town’s former residents - you'll be told about their hopes, dreams and their ideals, whilst also learning about the mysteries that surround the town.
The Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame and Outback Heritage Centre is Australia’s premier outback heritage institution. The Centre’s five themed galleries proudly display the history behind some of Australia’s greatest and bravest explorers, stock workers, pastoralist, and Aborigines. The exhibits comprising an eclectic mix of objects, images, touch screens, audiovisual presentations and open displays, allowing visitors to interpret the outback story in their own unique way.
The museum also houses a vast reserve collection which forms a unique work-in-progress display. From behind a glass wall, visitors can view archival material, photographs, artworks and various other items used for research and in new display development.
The Social History Hall is now home to the museum’s conservation storeroom and a small collection of Longreach social history. This includes: 1948 era classroom, the remains of the Longreach School of Arts Museum (1930-1970), a replica Airport Control Centre and a collection of commercial office equipment, circa 1908 – 1950 from local business house!
Cobb & Co were the pioneers of stagecoach travel and mail services throughout Australia. On an Outback Pioneers' Cobb & Co Stagecoach Experience you’ll travel in a restored stagecoach – first at a leisurely pace through town and then full-tilt along a stretch of the original Longreach-Windorah mail route...just like years gone by! Pounding hooves of the horses, the rattle and creak of the coach. Hold on to your hat for the only stagecoach gallop in Australia! This experience is the closest you can get to feeling what it would have been like in the pioneer past.
Cue “All the Rivers Run” theme. Take to the water and cruise on the only paddle wheeler in the area or on the Thomson Princess Riverboat. Enjoy an adventure to the heart of Outback tradition and legend - cruise down the river, taking in all the flora and fauna has to offer. You will head to shore for a traditional stockman’s camp-fire dinner, followed by bush poetry with a local outback storyteller. Next, the bush is illuminated by the Starlight’s Spectacular Sound & Light Picture Show – a unique big-screen presentation featuring locals in the amazing adventures of the notorious cattle thief known as ‘Captain Starlight’. Then you will end your night with a billy tea and a damper! Sounds like the perfect night out under the stars!
There is so much more to see and do in this Outback gem and there really is something for everyone.... what better way to see how our ancestors lived and how your kids that we really do live in the “lucky country”.
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Hamilton, known as Steeltown, has been a favorite film location since Season 1 for Murdoch Mysteries (2008) because of the historical buildings, parks, train stations, churches and museums in the city and in the surrounding Hamilton area, which help recreate the visual backdrops of turn-of-the-20th-century Toronto.
The original establishing shots used for the City Morgue and Station House No. 4 buildings in Cabbagetown is actually the 1859 Victorian pump house at the Hamilton Museum of Steam and Technology on Woodward Avenue.
Appearances and Mentions
Season 1
Elementary, My Dear Murdoch
Murdoch meets Sir Arthur Conan Doyle out front of the Duke Hotel — Whitehern (now a museum in Hamilton, Ontario)
'Til Death Do Us Part
Filmed at St. Paul's Presbyterian Church on James Street.
The Annoying Red Planet
It was filmed at Westfield Heritage Village and was written especially to use its 30 historical buildings
Season 2
Houdini Whodunit
Murdoch meets escape artist Harry Houdini and attends his show, filmed in the Cathedral (a theatre-in-the-round) at the Scottish Rite Club of Hamilton.
Season 3
The Tesla Effect
Filmed at Westfield Heritage Village.
Season 4
The Black Hand
Opening crime scene filmed at the Halton County Radial Railway Museum in Milton
Murdoch in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll party filmed at Ruthven Park near Cayuga
Season 5
Back and to the Left
Filmed at 270 Sherman, a creative arts centre and budding film studio housed in the former Imperial Cotton mill that was built in 1900.
Season 6
Lovers in a Murderous Time
Filmed at Whitehern.
Invention Convention
Filmed at 270 Sherman.
Season 7
The Filmed Adventures of Detective William Murdoch
Filmed in the Cathedral at the Scottish Rite Club.
Blast of Silence
Filmed at 270 Sherman and the Scottish Rite.
Season 8
On the Waterfront Part 1
Filmed at 270 Sherman.
Glory Days
Station House No. 4 throws a stag party for Murdoch, filmed upstairs of Slainte Irish Pub and additional filming at 270 Sherman.
Murdoch Takes Manhattan
Filmed on Melville St. in Dundas and the car chase was also filmed in the Dundas area.
The Keystone Constables
Filmed in the Cathedral at the Scottish Rite Club.
All That Glitters
It was filmed at Westfield Heritage Village
The Devil Wears Whalebone
Filmed at Heirlooms Bridal Shoppe in downtown Dundas.
Crabtree Mania
Filmed at 65 Hatt St. in Dundas, the proposed site for a new craft beer operation.
Season 9
Nolo Contendere
Filmed near the Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Vladimir and the old Main Plant of Dofasco, a steel company based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Marked Twain
Filmed at The Hamilton Club.
Barenaked Ladies
Filmed in Ayr, Gage Park, and Hamilton area.
Unlucky In Love
Filmed on location at Chedoke Estate in Hamilton, Ontario.
Season 10
Bend It Like Brackenreid
Filmed in McMaster University, a public research university.
A Murdog Mystery
Filmed in the theatre at the Scottish Rite Club.
Season 11
21 Murdoch Street
Filmed in McMaster University.
Brackenreid Boudoir
Season 12
Murdoch Without Borders
Filmed at Lawson Lumber for Copley Construction.
The Spy Who Loved Murdoch
Filmed at The Scottish Rite.
Drowning in Money (mentioned)
Annabella Cinderella
Filmed at Westfield Heritage Village.
Manual for Murder
Season 13
Bad Pennies
Filmed at The Cotton Factory.
Prodigal Father
Filmed at The Scottish Rite.
Season 14
Murdoch and the Tramp
Filmed at Gage Park.
Season 15
Murdoch Knows Best
Filmed at Victoria Street, Dundas.
Season 16
Season 17
Mrs. Crabtree's Neighborhood
Trivia
"When a production crew goes into a community to film an episode of Murdoch Mysteries, people are employed, apartments rented, caterers hired, sets built — hundreds of small businesses benefit. In more than 16 seasons of Murdoch Mysteries, nearly 10,000 full-time jobs have been created," states executive producer Christina Jennings.
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Westfield Heritage Village Conservation Area is a living history museum and conservation area. As one of Ontario’s most interesting historical destinations, it boasts a stunning collection of over 35 restored historical buildings, nestled within 204 hectares of conservation land featuring woodlands, meadows, and trails.
Historical buildings are not open on a daily basis, but visitors may walk through the Village, and enjoy hikes seven days a week. On special and event days, a selection of buildings will be open along with costumed interpreters providing demonstrations and guided tours.
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Interested in a little summer time travel? Westfield Heritage Village is a stunning collection of over 30 historical buildings, making it one of the most interesting historical destinations in Ontario. Carefully restored and staffed with costumed interpreters, the buildings capture the true charm and spirit of early Canadian culture.
Westfield Heritage Village provides educational, all-ages fun, as Frugal Mom Eh! Blogger, Elizabeth recently found out, “Westfield Heritage Village is a true treasure and so interesting and fun for all ages, and I am thrilled that we discovered it!”
Read all about Elizabeth’s trip to Westfield Heritage Village with her young daughter below.
EXPLORE EARLY CANADIAN CULTURE AT WESTFIELD HERITAGE VILLAGE #HAMILTONHALTONBRANT
ELIZABETH – I spent the afternoon with my Sister, Keira and Ava walking through Westfield Heritage Village, located in Rockton (Hamilton), Ontario.
Westfield Heritage Village is a collection of over 40 historical buildings sourced from the surrounding area and restored as accurately as possible in order to recreate a village typical of the late 19th century.
The village is staffed with costumed historical interpreters and offers many demonstrations of how things were done at the time.
Note that the village is mostly in the middle of a woodlot so be sure to bring not only sunscreen but insect repellent as well. It is also partially wheelchair accessible which also means only partially stroller accessible. I would recommend using a baby carrier if possible as getting baby in and out of the stroller to look through buildings with second floors or steps gets a bit silly.
Most of the village is walk-able via dirt path and it is fairly large. I think we got to maybe 1/2 of the buildings, so we will definitely be heading back later in the summer to take in the rest, perhaps during the Ice Cream Carnival in August.
Our first stop was the Blacksmith’s House which was built before 1828 in Beverly Township. It apparently housed a family of 10 with one large main room, a parlour, a pantry and an upstairs loft for sleeping quarters.
Right across from the Blacksmith’s house is the Blacksmith Shop which was one of the very first buildings moved to Westfield. The Blacksmith was happy to demonstrate use of the billows as well as to share with us many fascinating details of his trade.
We loved walking through the covered bridge which is a reproduction of the style of bridge you would find in the Victorian Era. The details, right down to the lantern holders are really special. It reminded me of the covered bridge in Road to Avonlea.
I have to say that all the interpreters we came across were quite excellent. All were very knowledgeable and obviously interested in the history of the building they were interpreting.
The newest addition to Westfield is the Westbrook House, which apparently just opened in May for viewing. The building was brought over from Brant County and was build by the family of Haggai Westbrook around 1810. The Westbrook House is in striking contrast to the Blacksmith’s House which was more the type you would find in Upper Canada at the time. The Westbrooks were obviously wealthy and the house is what would have been considered large at the time.
Mountsberg Church was built in 1854 by Charles Mount in Mountsberg. According to the guide, until 1870 women were seated to the right and men on the left. Our interpreter had a wealth of information to share with us about the building – it’s history and its restoration. The Church is also available for contemporary weddings which would be pretty amazing between the use of the Church, the beautiful grounds themselves and the Hall also available for events.
My sister was particularly interested in visiting the Drug Store which combines the examining room of Dr. Beattie with an apothecary. The stained glass window, showing a mortar and pestle, was made for the first drug store in St. George. The interpreter playing Dr. Beattie demonstrated how a tooth would have been pulled at the time as well as how medicines and pills would have been made at the time.
Located right behind the Drug Store is the The TH&B station, originally located in the village of Jerseyville, was built in 1896 and operated between Hamilton and Brantford. It was also featured in the movie Anne of Green Gables and the television series Road to Avonlea. Keira got a train ticket which she faithfully held on to the rest of our day.
Visitors are able to even venture inside one of the cars of the train which seemed to particularly fascinate Keira. It was actually really interesting to see inside, I was surprised by all that I found in there, I wouldn’t have expected some of the facilities we found inside.
TH&B Locomotive 103, this Class “G” Consolidated type steam locomotive was built in Montreal in 1910 for the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway as No. 52, but its number was changed twice, finally to 103. After many years of service, this mighty locomotive, one of two of its type to be preserved, was placed in Hamilton’s Gage Park before being moved to Westfield in the early 1970’s.
McRoberts Dry Goods Store was originally located in the town of Troy, the second floor depicts the working and living area of a seamstress. The main floor features ready-made clothing, materials, and trimmings for making your own. It features a rather large and impressive collection of clothing from the time period, including a section of baby and childrens clothing.
Stopping in at the General Store is a must. The building is from the village of Springfield in Elgin County, circa 1848. The storekeeper also served as a banker, extending or denying credit to his customers. Eddie D. Cat Confectionery features old-fashioned candies and other treats.
It was hot so this was the perfect time to buy some ice cold soda from the General store and enjoy it out on the boardwalk. I definitely recommend the Black Cherry. Yum!
Another of our favourite stops was the Cathcart School. Built in 1845, from Brant County. The schoolhouse was particularly interesting to us as our dad actually attended a one-room schoolhouse before it burnt down in 1957, the very same one my grandmother attended in the 1920s.
Keira loved practising her letters on the slate boards with real slate pencils. The school also features a bell the teacher may let you ring if you’ve been well behaved and remember to clean your slate.
Operated by Hamilton Conservation Authority, Westfield Heritage Village is open Sundays and Holidays from 12:30 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. from March through October.
Next time we will show up at opening and planned to stay for the day, and we will definitely be returning to see the rest and to experience the village during different seasons. Westfield Heritage Village is a true treasure and so interesting and fun for all ages, and I am thrilled that we discovered it!
Westfield Heritage Village is open for Canada Day, and I can’t think of a better way to celebrate than by exploring life at the very beginning of our wonderful Country.
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Hamilton’s past has shaped the dynamic city it is today.
From our many designated National Historic Sites (15 at last check!) to our defining role as an industrial hub, Hamilton's roots tell a fascinating story about how the city has evolved into the destination it is today.
Sure, you can read all about it on your own. But that’s nowhere near as interesting as coming to visit in person to experience it for yourself.
Here are some top picks for the history buff exploring Hamilton.
1. Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
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There's no place quite like it anywhere. Since 1972, the museum has pulled together an impressive collection of more than 40 vintage aircraft dating back to World War II, making it Canada's largest flying museum! You can do a lot more than just marvel at planes here. Climb into a cockpit, try a flight simulator, or even book a flight!
Don't Miss: The museum's biggest star is hands down the Avro Lancaster Bomber, the only surviving Lancaster in the world you can purchase a flight on. (The only other air-worthy Lancaster in the world is with the Royal Air Force in the UK).
2. Dundurn National Historic Site
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A visit to Hamilton isn't complete without a stop at one of the city's most iconic sites. The lavish, 40-room Victorian-era home overlooking the bay was the former home of one of Canada's first premiers, Sir Allan MacNab. It's Hamilton's own Downton Abbey!
The site was previously a key trading location for the Mississaugas and later, a fortified military encampment for British and loyalist soldiers during the War of 1812.
Don't Miss: Dundurn's two-acre Kitchen Garden is a destination unto itself where costumed interpreters use 19th Century tools and techniques to cultivate flowers, herbs, and food for use in the castle's kitchen and for the community. Come winter, the castle's Victorian Christmas program is a must-experience.
3. Westfield Heritage Village
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Unplug and slow down at this living history museum in Rockton in rural Hamilton. Costumed interpreters help bring early Canadian culture to life as they lead demonstrations on everything from blacksmithing to bread-making across 35 carefully restored historic buildings. The 130-hectare site is bordered by beautiful wooded trails and meadows.
Don’t miss: Favourite annual events like magical holiday programming, the Maple Syrup (winter) and Ice Cream (summer) festivals, make Westfield a year-round destination.
4. Battlefield House Museum & Park
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The 19th-century homestead, nestled under the scenic Niagara Escarpment and surrounded by acres of parkland, is a National Historic Site and local treasure. Once home to the prominent Gage Family, it was also the site of the pivotal 1813 Battle of Stoney Creek, a turning point in the War of 1812 where invading American forces were pushed back. The event is marked annually by the Re-enactment of the Battle of Stoney Creek.
Don't Miss: Be sure to visit the 100-foot tall Battlefield Monument erected as a symbol of peace and to commemorate the casualties of the Battle of Stoney Creek. Nearby stands the striking Eagles Among Us (more below).
5. Eagles Among Us
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This striking public art piece was commissioned by the City of Hamilton for Battlefield Park in Stoney Creek. The artwork by David M. General, an Oneida/Mohawk Indigenous artist and member of the Six Nations of the Grand River, consists of four, nine-foot-tall granite carved eagles inscribed with symbols and text around the theme of healing and reconciliation, inspired by the cultural traditions of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabek communities.
Don't Miss: The site has since become an important place of reflection and gathering in Hamilton. In the artist's own words Eagles Among us is "an invitation to people to consider the history, look at how things were, look at how things can be made better by the generations today. It creates a special sacred space and you can stand in the middle of that".
6. Griffin House
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This National Historic Site shares the fascinating history of Enerals Griffin and other early Black settlers at this preserved home set on a hilltop overlooking the beautiful Dundas Valley. When closed, the museum can be experienced here virtually.
Don't Miss: For more on the contributions of the African and Caribbean diaspora in Hamilton explore the Black History Audio Tour on the rich history of Little Africa around Concession Street.
7. HMCS HAIDA
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The Tribal-class destroyer distinguished itself during a number of historic battles during World War II and beyond. It’s now a Parks Canada Historic Site docked at Hamilton’s West Harbour (Pier 9) that helps visitors discover what life was like for crew members serving on board with the Canadian Navy and develop a deeper appreciation of the role it played on the international battlefront.
Don’t Miss: Throughout the summer season, take a guided tour for a snapshot of life at sea and explore the ship's inner workings, from deck to engine room.
8. Hamilton Museum of Steam & Technology
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You’ll love getting a behind-the-scenes look at the early days of Canada’s industrial revolution with two preserved 70-ton powered water pumping engines. Museum curators take guests on a fascinating journey that created these engineering feats housed in this 150-year-old waterworks.
Don’t Miss: Popular events here include model train shows, hands-on workshops and Golden Horseshoe Live Steamer Days throughout the summer complete with miniature train rides and free guided tours.
9. Whitehern Historic House & Garden
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Experience one of Canada's most intact historic homes in this fascinating downtown museum. Costumed interpreters help unearth the lives of the three generations of the McQuesten family who lived here from 1852 to 1968. The historic house and all of its contents were given to the City of Hamilton in 1959 to be appreciated by future generations. It’s a rare glimpse into Georgian, Victorian, and Edwardian time periods.
Don't Miss: Wait for summer to experience Whitehern's stunning garden – a secret, walled oasis in the heart of downtown. Look out for special lunchtime concerts.
10. The Rock Garden at Royal Botanical Gardens
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Opened to visitors in 1932, the historic Rock Garden is considered the birthplace of Royal Botanical Gardens. Before there was the QEW and Highway 403, the Rock Garden was part of a design to help enhance the beauty of Hamilton as the main entry point into the city from Toronto. Escarpment stone from the Red Hill Valley was transported here, to this former gravel pit, to start the process. The rejuvenated garden features year-round perennial and conifer displays and a tranquil waterfall and stream.
Don't Miss: The Rock Garden's stunning Visitor Centre is a great place for special events and dining. It's also the launching pad for year-round events in the garden.
11. Architecture Tour
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Hamilton’s architecture is widely considered unique in the region for the quantity and variety of preserved historic buildings. Early standouts include Griffin House (1827), Dundurn Castle (1835), Hamilton Customs House (1860), Whitehern (1848), and St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church (1857). Later examples include LIUNA Station (1930) and the Lister Block (1923), now beautifully restored and home to the Tourism Hamilton Visitor Experience Centre.
Don’t Miss: Take this self-guided Downtown Hamilton Heritage Walking Tour to discover architectural gems spanning decades of the city’s history.
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As you drive east along Highway 2 between Brockville and Prescott, you will find the robust Georgian Homewood Museum deeply set back from the road. One of the oldest houses in Ontario, Homewood was built in 1799-1800 by Dr. Solomon Jones – a Loyalist who came to Augusta Township with his young family c. 1784. He was the area’s first physician and the second member from Leeds County to be elected to the Parliament of Upper Canada (1796-1800).
Six successive generations of the Jones family lived on the property until 1951. This large two-storey stone house – donated to the Ontario Heritage Foundation in 1974 and restored with the help of Invista Canada (formerly DuPont Canada) and the Canadian Parks Service – reflects the aspirations and accomplishments of the Jones family.
Their story is best illuminated by the fascinating collection of artifacts on display in the house. Many are original and have been passed from generation to generation, thus leaving a valuable historic resource of personal letters, books, diaries, receipts, medical records and equipment, furniture, china, silverware, clothing, photographs, agricultural tools and housewares spanning the 18th and 19th centuries.
Some of the Homewood treasures include:
Victorian hair wreath
Hanging against the south wall of the sitting room is an intriguing hair wreath. It was crafted by Lucia Jones on Ash Wednesday 1883 and contains the hair of Jones family members, each piece carefully labeled. Attached to the back of the shadow box is a handwritten note that states: “Lucia Jones Ash Wednesday 1883.” Also attached to the back of the box is a small package that reads, “The hair of Lucia Jones.”
Hair wreaths can represent a memorial to a deceased family member or a keepsake. Hair is arranged into small groupings of between 10 to 80 hairs, twisted around a knitting needle and then bound by fine intertwined wires. The hair is wound into flower and leaf shapes and floral sprig groupings.
Mahogany grandfather clock
The personal taste of the Jones family can be seen in this 18th-century slim waisted grandfather clock with satinwood inlay – believed to have been brought by Mary Tunnicliffe, wife of Solomon Jones, from New York.
Photographs
A photograph of Andrew Jones, son of Dunham Jones. Notation on back board, “A wonderful and best of men and one for the family to be proud of!!"
Dinner service
This deep, rich cobalt blue dinner service set – with central motif of historical views of different places in London and with a border of trees, foliage, rocks and flowers on all dishes – was manufactured by Adams in Staffordshire, England and dates from 1820-35. The set was purchased by Dunham Jones in the 1830s.
Commode
Cherry and pine bed steps/commode, c. 1840, used to climb on to the bed, but which also served as a commode. The centre section pulls out, and the lid reveals the commode.
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Discover the history of New Jersey. Historic sites across the state tell intriguing stories of New Jersey’s diverse, inventive, creative and revolutionary people.
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The Reeve History & Cultural Resource Center serves as home to the Westfield Historical Society. Built in 1870, the Italianate style structure houses a museum and is the future site of the Society's archives. The property has a rich history – it’s owners Edgar and Ralph Tichenor Reeve donated the house to the Town of Westfield in 1985 in memory of their father, William Edgar Reeve. William lived in the house from 1906 to 1963 and contributed to the development of Westfield. The site is also located on Mountain Avenue where it played an important role in the American Revolution as a spring located on the rear of the property that was used by both American and British troops.
The home hosts events and programs on the 1.62-acre site, as well as permanent and rotating exhibits throughout the year. The Reeve History & Cultural Resource Center is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
WHAT TO SEE AND DO
Schedule a house tour to learn about the Reeve family and their contributions to the development of Westfield
Explore the Westfield Historical Society’s archives
Discover local history through a permanent or rotating exhibit
Journey through Jersey strives to have the most up-to-date information, but always check with the site itself before planning a visit.
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Location: Highway 52, off Highway 8, just west of Rockton, Ontario
Since its opening in 1964, the Westfield Heritage Centre has had a long and interesting past. The centre offers a view of what life in Ontario was like prior to Confederation. It is built on 340 hectares (840 acres) of land in the Rockton area, near the African Lion Safari, with a number of historical buildings designed to take visitors through a piece of Ontario's history.
Westfield is the product of three Brantford teachers' desire to provide a hands-on educational experience from which their students would learn about pioneer life. Their idea was to preserve mid-19th century buildings and equip them with appropriate artifacts and tools, in order to make the experience of visiting the village as authentic as possible.
Coming to be known as the Westfield Pioneer Village Association, the historical group planned for the site to include a village church, school house, grist mill, covered bridge, general store, an inn, a printer's shop, a shoemaker's shop, a cabinet maker's shop, a drug store and a number of homes.
In 1961, the Association acquired 30 acres of land for the project. Shortly thereafter, the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo (TH&B) railway house at Jerseyville was moved to the village. A frame hotel from Middlesex County and a printing shop from Huron were also acquired for the site. Equipment for a general store was brought in from Elgin County, while hotel furnishings and early farm equipment Norfolk and apothecary equipment were brought in from from Oxford. An authentic 1500's-style press was placed in the print shop.
The village was unofficially opened to the public in June of 1963, and an official opening was held the following year, in June of 1964.
An ancient Indian church, which had been moved from the Six Nations Indian Reserve to Westfield was opened in 1965. It was built in 1814 at Stone Ridge (on the Six Nations Reservation), making it the oldest church in Ontario. When it was moved to the site, it was dedicated to all Christian faiths.
By 1967, the village founders began seeking Wentworth County Council support, even though the village was not experiencing any financial difficulty. The founders simply wanted county administration of the village and for the county to assume responsibility for its continued operation. They were also hoping that if the County were to take over the village, then it would not only find a place on the map, but would also be safe if current members of Westfield Pioneer Village Association lost interest or died.
In May of 1968, the Westfield Pioneer Village was purchased by the county for $32,700. It became an official county property on November 1,1968. At this time, plans were being made to further expand the village by acquiring at least eight more buildings.
One of the buildings that opened not long after the County's acquisition of the village was Dr. Beattie's Drug Store. Originally located in the small north-Burlington community of Kilbride in the late 1800s, it was moved to the village and re-opened on August 15th, 1971. It was fully-equipped with authentic mid-19th century items. In 1971 there was also the opening of the Apple Hill post office.
Unfortunately, by this time the village was beginning to run into some financial difficulties. The centre was over budgeted and the county began to have doubts as to whether it should continue its involvement with the village. The City Council voted to place elected officials in control of the village. In 1972, ownership of Westfield Pioneer Village was transferred to the Hamilton-Wentworth region.
The village continued its expansion in 1975 by acquiring such buildings as a mud block house and spinning wheel shop which were built in 1837. In 1977, TH&B Engine 103 was moved to the village from Gage Park. Later, in 1981, a TH&B caboose dating back to World War I was also acquired.
In 1981, the region's Economic Development Committee recommended Council change the name of Westfield Pioneer Village to Wentworth Heritage Village because a major portion of the village's collection represented not the pioneer era of 1792 - 1812, but rather the period of 1814 to 1910. Most of the heritage that Westfield presented was related to the United Empire Loyalists and other early settlers, such as farmers and artisans. The name "Pioneer Village" was somewhat misleading, and it was hoped that by changing it, the village would be able to rid itself of a "Walt Disney approach" to its heritage.
Despite its new name, the village's deficit continued to rise, and in 1983 discussions began about the possibility of the Hamilton Region Conservation Authority taking control of Westfield. By 1984, it was decided that the Wentworth Heritage Village was in serious need of approximately $1 million in repairs. If these repairs were not done, a great deal of the centre would be in ruin. Rumors circulated about funds being spent inappropriately. Records indicated that while the buildings were falling apart, a major portion of the money had been spent on acquiring new artifacts rather than on maintenance.
On September 3, 1984, Wentworth Heritage Village ceased operation. This shut-down took place 3 months before the planned closure for that season, with no guarantees of a re-opening in the following April.
With the centre still closed in 1985, discussions began on the possibility of re-locating the centre. The Christie Conservation area and Confederation Park were both considered viable alternatives. The idea was that a relocation to a better area might have attracted more visitors to the village. On May 12, 1986, the Regional Economic Development and Planning Committee recommended leaving the village in its current location and working instead on repairing the damage. Repair costs were estimated to be $1 million, whereas moving the entire site would have cost at least $1.7 million.
Further study was done on the repairs that the village would require. By February, 1987, it was estimated by the regional committee that $3 million of tax payer money would be required over the next five years to have the Wentworth Heritage Village suitable for re-opening. Later that year, the region decided to implement a plan which would call for the opening of the centre in 1990. The Regional Council approved spending $1.73 million over the next seven years to restore the heritage centre. Another $750,000 would be raised through donations and grants. It was calculated that $300, 000 would be required annually by the village to operate effectively and to cover the shortfall in revenues. Also, it was decided that the Wentworth Heritage Village's emphasis should be placed on education and wood-working.
Although it seemed like a good idea at the time, the wood-working theme was eventually dropped in favour of yet another idea. This time, plans were being drawn up to have the heritage centre converted into a $10 million historical amusement park. By this time, the Hamilton Regional Conservation Authority had taken control of the village and it was up to them to figure out what should be done with it. Flamborough Mayor Jim Robb found it "disgusting even to think about" giving up on the village. By November of 1989, the amusement park idea was dropped, and discussions now focused on what reasonable action could be taken to save the Wentworth Heritage Village.
Redevelopment of the site began in 1990, with a re-opening on November 30, 1990, occurring just in time for Christmas. The centre was now a "special events theme centre," known as Westfield Heritage Centre, with its first theme being entitled Christmas in the Country. Redevelopment was scheduled to continue over the next five years, but at least the site was safe for the public to visit.
By 1991, episodes of the Canadian television miniseries "Road to Avonlea" were being filmed at Westfield Heritage Centre and the sets and props were put on display, attracting a great number of visitors. Actors from the series have occasionally hosted autograph sessions at the site, drawing a great number of fans eager to meet them.
Civil war re-enactments are also played out at Westfield Heritage Centre. In fact, since the early 1990s, a different battle has been re-enacted each August. The re-enactors are people with a passion for accuracy and detail, learning how to march and carry their weapons with precision. The battles are fought before audiences who are later encouraged to speak with the actors to get a better understanding of what a civil war battle was really like. More than 50,000 Canadians fought in the civil war, and about 1,500 of these were Hamiltonians.
The Westfield Heritage Centre also holds a maple syrup program every spring, so visitors can explore the historic pioneer and modern maple syrup harvest.
Today, Westfield is a living, breathing recreation of the past, with volunteers dressed in historically appropriate costumes working as their ancestors did in the past. The centre is divided into the following buildings:
Albrecht Siep Boot and Harness Shop
As long as horses were the source of power for wagons, buggies and ploughs, the leather worker's skill as a harness maker was essential to the community. This shop was a two-man enterprise. The master craftsman and his apprentice made all of the leather boots and harness from hides originating from the farms in the community. This shop dates back to 1859 and is from Waterloo County.
Bake Oven
This functional bake oven was used during the summer months when it was too hot to bake indoors. Bread could be baked on heated bricks, once the coals from the blazing fire were removed. Up to 25 loaves of bread could (and still can) be baked on this oven at one time.
Bamberger House
Built c. 1806 by Samuel Bamberger, Bamberger House was moved from Hamilton's west-end in July 1993. It is Hamilton's oldest surviving building and is currently under restoration. When completed, the home will represent an 1850 upper-middle class homestead.
Blacksmith Shop
This is a fully-equipped building typical of the blacksmith shops found throughout Ontario. The hand-cut pine rafters and oak studding remind visitors of the rugged simplicity of pioneer craftsmen. In addition to shoeing horses or oxen, the versatile blacksmith forged and repaired farm tools, wagon parts and many other necessities. This building dates back to 1853 and is from Wellington County.
Cabinetmaker's Shop
This building has been reconstructed from a cabinetmaker's shop in Burlington. It highlights the tools and techniques of the trade.
Cathcart School No. 24
Dating back to 1845 in Brant County, this school was donated by Mr. Alex Szombati, Sr., of the hamlet of Cathcart. This typical one-room schoolhouse served as a community school until 1865 when it became a residence.
The few textbooks were supplemented by the large charts and maps that can still be seen hanging on the wall. Slates were used for daily work, conserving pens, ink and paper for the final product that might be viewed by the inspector on his next visit. The children helped to maintain their school by keeping the stove burning, filling the water bucket, sweeping, as well as cleaning slates and brushes. The cane hanging behind the teachers desk reminds us of an earlier, harsher view of discipline.
The construction of this building is notable for the exceptional wide logs (the largest is 27 inches) that were positioned by man and animal power. Doors and windows were cut out after the logs were in place.
D'Aubigny's Inn
This 1820 Brant County home was converted to an inn by William D'Aubigny in 1836-37. Many pioneer settlements grew up around a crossroads inn that also provided a village meeting place. The large, centrally located fireplace was typical of buildings of this period and the accommodations offered were very primitive. This inn once welcomed people at the outskirts of Brantford on the road to London.
Drug Store
This building combines the examining room of Dr. Beattie and a drug store (or Apothecary), originally located in the village of Kilbride, in the Regional Municipality of Halton, in 1879. The many items on the shelves, which were gifts of the White Drug store in Aylmer, Hyde's Drugstore in Woodstock and Scott's Drugstore in Norwich, were used in the practice of medicine in the 1890s. These items include a saw, a capsule-making device, and a suppository-maker. The stained glass window, showing a mortar and pestle was made for the first drug store in St. George in Brant County.
Since doctors were rare in the rural areas, farm families would have to be self-reliant in times of illness. Home remedies, many using native plants and learned from native peoples, were passed down from generation to generation. Medicinal herbs were also part of every home garden in urban areas.
Edmundson House
This house is a gift of the City of Brantford, where it was built in 1827.
Episcopal Methodist Church
This church was built in 1854 by Charles Mount in Mountsberg and restored in 1970. A tower and spire were added as was the pulpit furniture which was used by a Methodist church in Elgin County. Until 1870, women were seated to the right and men on the left.
Gate House
This building serves as an administration office where admission can be paid and public washrooms are available.
General Store
The general store (c. 1848, Elgin County) was the center of the social and economic life of the village. Farmers came here to read the newspapers and catch up on the local gossip. The children enjoyed shopping errands since the general store was likely their only source of sweets, such as the rock candy which is still on sale at the store.
George Potts' Spinning Wheel Shop
This shop originally stood on the outskirts of the town of Simcoe. Dating back to 1886, this is where George Potts would manufacture Doolittle's spinning machines and is thought to be the only complete spinning wheel shop preserved in Ontario.
Gillen House
This elegant house (c. 1862) was home to four generations of the Gillen family at 100 Wellington Street, Brantford. Dubbed "Old Hundred" by the Gillen grandchildren, the house bears this name on the letter slot, and is a gift of the city of Brantford. The home was built by Robert Gillen, a magistrate, who died the very year it was completed. His widow and four daughters, the youngest of whom was only three, were its first occupants. Their love of culture and music is reflected in the furnishings throughout: in the front parlour, a Mason and Risch Victrola and a music box that operates on the organ principle using reeds and air; in the back parlour, a zither (an instrument similar to an autoharp), a Fischer square grand piano, and an Excelsior pump organ.
Inn Driveshed
The driveshed sheltered horses and carriages while its owners rested at the Inn.
Ironwood Tea House
The Ironwood Tea House is a nostalgic building and serves as Westfield's restaurant during special events and as a lunch facility during school programs. Food services are provided by the Friends of Westfield and features a delightful menu.
Lockhart Farmstead
Building and maintaining a farmstead like this one, which typically has four buildings (house, smoke-house, outhouse and barn), took the labour of the entire family with little time for leisure. Many of the early settlers here, such as the Loyalists who were granted lands in British North America in return for their loyalty to the Crown during the American Revolution, had limited knowledge of farming and were even less prepared for clearing the wilderness. This building dates back to 1854 and was originally built in Oxford County.
Log Church
Believed to be the oldest log church in Ontario, this building was erected in 1824 as a school but used as a church at Kanyengeh on the Six Nations Reserve until 1854. This is a reminder that the Mohawk came to this area as Christian Loyalist settlers, important British allies in North America.
The church was constructed of hand cut logs which was assembled without nails and chinked with oakum. The pews were handmade and seated about forty people. In 1962, the church was rededicated at Westfield in a service conducted in Mohawk and English.
Log House
A few different log houses exist at Westfield Heritage Centre, moved from various locations and representing different periods in history.
Marr Shop
Currently under restoration, this small 1800's timber frame building was built in Ancaster.
McRobert Dry Goods Store
Originally from the village of Troy and dating back to 1850, this dry goods store has been furnished for the year 1899 with goods donated by individuals and stores in Wentworth County. The store took its name from storekeepers Brice McRoberts and his nephew Alexander McRoberts. The upstairs was originally used as a meeting place for community functions.
Misener House
This building was occupied by Conrad Misener in 1832 and is an excellent example of a timber frame house in Upper Canada. It was built in the village of Troy and donated to Westfield by the Misener family.
Potts Building
A replica of the original mud block house of the Potts family from Simcoe, c. 1840, it features a display of Victorian "heirlooms", a small portion of the over 30,000 artifacts at Westfield..
Sawmill
This sawmill, built circa 1870, turned settlers' logs into lumber. This allowed a greater range of building types, and provided an important export item.
Seth Fothergill's Print Shop
A great step forward in the development of any district was the establishment of a print shop, such as this one constructed in Goderich. Here a village's weekly newspaper was printed along with handbills announcing sales, auctions, sporting events, political meetings and even funerals. The fine collection of wooden types in the cases at the back of the shop are still ready for use on the 1863 Washington flat bed press, the gift of the Hurley Printing Co. of Brantford. The Hoedrum type press, also dating from the 1860's, was operated by steam and required at least three men to operate it.
Trading Post
Wentworth area trading posts have been located in what is now Crook's Hollow and at the site of Dundurn Castle in the 1700s. Trade with the native people remained an important part of Upper Canada's pioneer economy as late as the 1830's. Natives traded pelts, produce, basketware and leather beadwork for sugar, tobacco, gunpowder, blankets and other commodities. This c. 1830 two-storey building of tamarack logs from Leeds County, the former Dorman family residence and the gift of Mr. Hollis Dorman, shows many of the items stocked in a traditional trading post including traps, blankets, barrels, stoneware crocks and snow shoes.
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Explore ancient Egyptian tombs, underwater worlds, Impressionist masterpieces, the depths of space, and beyond. From major exhibits to neighborhood cultural attractions, there’s a whole world to explore at Chicago’s renowned museums, galleries, and historic places.
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HSV celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Shakers’ arrival in America!
To honor the 250th anniversary of the Shakers’ arrival in America, Hancock Shaker Village celebrates the many contributions of leader Ann Lee and her followers. Exhibits throughout the Village honor
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To honor the 250th anniversary of the Shakers’ arrival in America, Hancock Shaker Village celebrates the many contributions of leader Ann Lee and her followers. Exhibits throughout the Village honor Mother Ann, the Shaker Sisters who lived at Hancock, and the many women who have brought the Shaker story to life since Hancock’s inception as a museum in 1961.
Historical narratives are presented through images, writings, recordings, drawings, samplers, correspondences, music, and objects used and made in the Shakers’ day-to-day lives. Contemporary reflections on the contributions of the Shaker Sisters are featured in the work of women artists who are influenced and inspired by the Shaker aesthetic.
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With support and investment from the National Lottery Community Fund the Westfield Park Community Centre (WPCC) (SCIO) Board of Trustees is now recruiting for a Centre Manager to take forward WPCC’s engagement with the community and local partners and support the development of a programme of events to meet the needs of the local community. The position is 28 hours per week, with a degree of flexibility and incorporating occasional evening and weekend work. Salary is £30,000 per annum, pro rata. While the post is initially a fixed contract of 12 months it is anticipated future funding for the post will be secured. The Centre Manager will oversee the day to day management and smooth running of WPCC, ensuring that WPCC is a vibrant, welcoming and well managed facility that operates for the benefit of the local community and the residents of the Falkirk District area. The successful candidate will have a key role in developing opportunities for income generation and successful partnerships, securing additional investment through grant funding opportunities, helping to ensure the long-term financial sustainability of WPCC as a result. Applicants must be able to demonstrate relevant management experience and have a successful track record of delivering quality outputs. Relevant experience of the third sector would be beneficial.
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With support and investment from Impact Funding Partners, we are now recruiting for a Volunteer Development Coordinator to take forward Westfield Park Community Centre's ( WPCC) volunteer engagement strategy with the local community. The new post will be responsible for supporting and supervising the current volunteer team and will be developing volunteer processes for WPCC. They will be engaging local partners and looking to build the volunteer team to support the development of a programme of events and to meet the needs of the local community.
The position is 20 hours per week, with a degree of flexibility and incorporating occasional evening and weekend work. Salary at full time equivalent is £24,000 on a fixed term contract to March 2025. WPCC offers 29 days Annual leave and will include 2 fixed public holidays. The organisation contributes equivalent to 6% of the post’s salary into the pension scheme.
The Volunteer Development Coordinator will contribute to the day-to-day management and smooth running of WPCC, ensuring that WPCC is a vibrant, welcoming and well managed facility that operates for the benefit of the local community and the residents of the Falkirk District area.
Applicants must be able to demonstrate relevant experience in recruiting, training and supporting volunteers and have a very good understanding of community development and challenges facing local communities. Relevant experience of the third sector would be beneficial.
If the sound of this role excites you and you would like to discuss in further detail, please contact the centre manager Angus on 01324619817 or managerwestfieldparkcommunity@outlook.com.
Women on Wheels, a Glasgow based community cycling hub for women and non-binary people, is seeking a dedicated and experienced Interim Project Manager.
Our purpose is to encourage and facilitate women & non binary people in the community to get back on a bike or to cycle for the first time. Our programmes are designed and led by women and non-binary people, focusing on a range of cycling & social activities.
Due to our current Project Manager taking time out for personal reasons, we are looking for an Interim Project Manager to ensure the continued successful management of our charity. Therefore, this is a temporary post for 6 months, with the possibility of extension.
The successful candidate will have experience managing an organisation of a similar scale, supporting a team, and overseeing daily operations.
Key Responsibilities:
As the Interim Project Manager, you will be responsible for the overall management of the charity, ensuring the continuity and success of our various cycling programmes and activities. The role involves:
Overseeing the day-to-day operations of the charity.
Managing and supporting a team of dedicated staff, sessional workers and volunteers
Ensuring the successful implementation and delivery of all activities and programmes.
Maintaining effective relationships with key stakeholders, funders and partners.
Monitoring and reporting on the charity's progress and performance.
Monitoring and managing the charity's financial position.
Reporting directly to the Board of Directors.
A full breakdown of the role and key requirements are outlined in the Job Description.
To help you fully settle into the role, you will be guided by a passionate and committed Board of Directors and a highly effective team of staff members, seasonal workers and volunteers.
Location:
This post is for 3 days per week, worked flexibly, and is based at the Women on Wheels Hub, Govanhill Workspace, Unit 4, 69 Dixon Road, Glasgow, G42 8AT. It is expected that the post holder will work in the Hub at least two days per week to align with the staff team.
We offer:
Competitive salary
Annual leave
Enhanced sick leave entitlements
Personal bereavement leave
Training and education opportunities
Flexible working hours
Dependency leave:
About us
Angus Carers Centre is a rights-based charity working with and for unpaid carers from all walks of life living across Angus. We exist to improve the quality of life for all carers by building genuine and equal relationships, connecting carers with each other to create a sense of belonging and community, providing practical and emotional supports, and influencing change at local and national level.
Established in 1996, we have grown significantly over the last 25 years, and we are now supporting nearly 2,000 unpaid adult and young carers across Angus. Our talented and passionate team of 25 staff and over 20 volunteers ensure the needs of our carers are meet. Together with our volunteers we strive to provide a first-class service to carers and their families, to make a lasting difference to their lives.
Our vision is that all unpaid carers in Angus will receive appropriate information and support to enable them to feel valued and confident in their caring situation and to develop their own potential.
Why should you consider applying?
The social, political and policy horizon is changing, and we need to ensure that we provide the right support at the right time. We are entering a new and exciting chapter, and there has never been a better time to join our organisation.
You will form part of the Leadership Team. You will be making an impact by building authentic and empowering relationships with our dedicated and change-driven teams supporting unpaid carers, their families and partner organisations. You will lead on the development of our service demonstrating its impact and added value. But most importantly, you will put the voice of carers at the centre of what we do.
Reporting to the CEO, you will have a positive non-judgemental regard and help unpaid carers exercise their rights and support them to realise their potential.
Job overview
The postholder will:
• Lead, recruit, and support volunteers to ensure they are motivated, and feel valued and respected making a lasting difference in our communities.
• Develop volunteering strategy, ensuring it is inclusive, future-focused, and carers-centered.
• Promote and champion the role of volunteers by building and maintaining relationships with key partners, local organisations, and influencers.
• Provide safe, nurturing, and developmental support supervision to a team of volunteers.
• Design, deliver and evaluate volunteering activities ensuring they align with local need and organisational vision.
• Continuously evidence and communicate the impact of volunteering, internally and externally to further demonstrate its value: individual, organisational, and societal.
• Establish strong relationships with other volunteer organisations to share learnings and good practice and build a network of support.
• Build a network of supportive organisations and communities of interest to strengthen the role and profile of unpaid carers.
• Collaborate with other teams, business support, finance, fundraising and others, to support all aspects of volunteering, including events management, training, and professional development.
• Continuously strive for excellence by ensuring learning is embedded in practice, policies, and systems
• Keep abreast of legislation, policy and good practice related to volunteering.
• Ensure organisational and local safeguarding and health & safety policies are adhered to and effectively implemented.
• Comply with Angus Carers Centre’s policies and procedures.
Job overview
The above does not represent an exhaustive list of responsibilities and tasks but indicates the main responsibilities required from employees in the role. The organisation reserves the right to require employees to perform other duties from time to time.
Key values
• Strong sense of integrity.
• Authentic and true to themselves and others,
• Compassionate and boundaries,
• Drive for social justice and equity.
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Qualifications and knowledge:
• Degree in community education, social care, project management or relevant experience in developing, leading, and supporting volunteers.
• Knowledge of safeguarding, health and safety, and data protection.
• Understanding of the needs of diverse individuals and communities.
• Full Driving License and a suitable vehicle for work with business insurance.
Experience
• Experience in all aspects of effective Volunteer Management (recruitment, training, support)
• Experience of collaborating with external stakeholders including communities, voluntary and private organisations, and individuals,
• Experience of project management, achieving goals, managing a busy workload, and working to deadlines
• Experience of partnership working, preferably in the Third Sector
• Experience of service development, delivery, and evaluation
Working hours
16 hours per week subject to organisational needs. Some work may have to be undertaken outside office hours, including evenings and weekends.
Special conditions
The post entails work with vulnerable people and falls within the definition of “regulated work” under the provision of the Protection of Vulnerable groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The post holder will require to be registered as a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups Scheme, which will involve a Disclosure Scotland check.
Office base
The post is based at 8 Grant Road, Arbroath, DD11 1JN.
Equal opportunities
Angus Carers Centre is committed to being an Equal Opportunities Employer and we encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds to consider joining Angus Carers Centre.
Benefits
• Training and development opportunities
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 6% employer pension contribution
• Free car park
• 31 days of annual leave
• Flexible working, subject to organisation’s needs.
Angus Carers Centre is a rights-based charity working with and for unpaid carers from all walks of life living across Angus. We exist to improve the quality of life for all carers by building genuine and equal relationships, connecting carers with each other to create a sense of belonging and community, providing practical and emotional supports, and influencing change at local and national level.
Established in 1996, we have grown significantly over the last 25 years, and we are now supporting nearly 2,000 unpaid adult and young carers across Angus. Our talented and passionate team of 25 staff and over 20 volunteers ensure the needs of our carers are meet. Together with our volunteers we strive to provide a first-class service to carers and their families, to make a lasting difference to their lives.
Our vision is that all unpaid carers in Angus will receive appropriate information and support to enable them to feel valued and confident in their caring situation and to develop their own potential.
Why should you consider applying?
The social, political and policy horizon is changing, and we need to ensure that we provide the right support at the right time. We are entering a new and exciting chapter, and there has never been a better time to join our organisation.
You will form part of the Leadership Team. You will be making an impact by building authentic and empowering relationships with our dedicated and change-driven teams supporting unpaid carers, their families and partner organisations. You will lead on the development of our service demonstrating its impact and added value. But most importantly, you will put the voice of carers at the centre of what we do.
Reporting to the CEO, you will have a positive non-judgemental regard and help unpaid carers exercise their rights and support them to realise their potential.
Job overview
The postholder will:
Create a safe environment for unpaid carers to build genuine relationships to participate in meaningful and engaging activities allowing them to express themselves, share their dreams and aspirations.
Manage the development of Angus Carers Centre’s services, including identifying unmet need, monitoring, and maintaining standards in line with contractual agreements, and good practice.
Provide leadership, management, coaching, support to the team members.
Be responsible and accountable for the management of the team’s financial budgets in line with Angus Carers Centre’s financial and business support procedures.
Measure the impact of our work in a creative and ethical manner ensuring lessons learnt are identified and taken forward, reporting on outcomes and progress towards strategic objectives.
Work closely with other teams to ensure collaborative culture and synergies prevail across all areas of Angus Carers Centre’s work.
Maintain and build relationships with a broad range of public, private and Third Sector organisations, including schools, community groups, health and care providers, and others.
In collaboration with other teams, use the evidence of impact of our work to influence policy and practice within the local area and beyond.
Ensure organisational and local safeguarding and health & safety policies are adhered to and effectively implemented.
Support teams in identifying unpaid carers’ needs, circumstances, and outcomes, and support them to achieve them by working collaboratively with colleagues, partners agencies and other organisations.
Ensure unpaid carers’ voices and opinions are heard and taken into account in decision-making processes.
Work collaboratively with Angus Carers Centre’s teams to achieve its vision and strategic objectives.
Continuously learn, reflect, and improve what we do to ensure evaluation is embedded into practice, and reflects agreed outcomes.
Raise profile of Angus Carers Centre by facilitating information and development sessions with a wide range of organisations, communities, and individuals.
Speak truth to power in a respectful, impactful, and authentic manner.
Comply with Angus Carers Centre’s policies and procedures.
The above does not represent an exhaustive list of responsibilities and tasks but indicates the main responsibilities required from employees in the role. The organisation reserves the right to require employees to perform other duties from time to time.
Key values
Strong sense of integrity.
Authentic and true to themselves and others,
Compassionate and boundaries,
Drive for social justice and equity.
Qualifications and knowledge:
Bachelor’s or master’s degree such as Social Work, Community Development, Youth Work. Equivalent qualification or five years’ experience at a senior level.
Understanding of Human Rights, the UNCRC and Children’s Rights and the needs of diverse individuals and communities,
Knowledge of the policy and practice areas of the social care sector in Scotland, including SSSC, Care Inspectorate and the new National Care Service.
While we would welcome the knowledge gathered through a relevant qualification, we are just as interested in relevant work experience.
Demonstrable continuing professional development in relevant areas
Full Driving License and a suitable vehicle for work with business insurance.
Experience
Experience of leading, motivating and building teams through times of change.
Experience of the social care sector in Scotland, including the policy landscape affecting local authorities, health boards, health,and social care partnerships.
Experience of multiagency working supporting the development and delivery of services within local communities.
Experience of working with a range of stakeholders, senior officials, Trustees, the public and partner.
Working hours
35 hours per week subject to organisational needs. Some work may have to be undertaken outside office hours, including evenings and weekends.
Equipment
Laptop, docking station and mobile phone.
Special conditions
The post entails work with vulnerable people and falls within the definition of “regulated work” under the provision of the Protection of Vulnerable groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The post holder will require to be registered as a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups Scheme, which will involve a Disclosure Scotland check.
Office base
The post is based at 8 Grant Road, Arbroath, DD11 1JN.
Equal opportunities
Angus Carers Centre is committed to being an Equal Opportunities Employer and we encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds to consider joining Angus Carers Centre.
Benefits
Training and development opportunities
Employee Assistance Programme
6% employer pension contribution
Free car park
31 days of annual leave
Flexible working, subject to organisation’s needs.
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This year is the 50th Anniversary of Westfield Heritage Village. The village, containing over 30 historic buildings on a 3.4 square kilometre site, is located just west of Rockton, Ontario, Canada between Cambridge and Hamilton.
It is not hard to see the passion and imagination is still as alive now as it was when the Village was created 50 years ago. Buildings have lovingly been restored and furnished to match the period of the day. There are churches, shops, a school house, sawmill, a farm and even a house from one of my ancestors.
The Misener House was donated by the Misener family from it’s original location in Troy, Ontario. The home was built in 1832 by Conrad Misener. Conrad and I share a common ancestor in his father and my 7x great grandfather Adam Misener. Per records I found online, descendants of Conrad’s chose to donate the house to the village after it was inhabited for over 100 years.
The Misener House in the Westfield Heritage Village per the virtual museum “The house itself is a simple, humble, post and beam building from 1832. It was made with local lumber sawn in the Misener’s own mill on Fairchild’s Creek.”
Train enthusiasts have lots to see and enjoy as well. A train station originally built in 1896 has been moved to the village from nearby Jerseyville; a locomotive is on site and a steam powered wagon will take visitors on tours around the village.
My father and his tractor club were invited to join in the Volunteer celebration over Father’s Day weekend and he asked me to come along. The Rockton Antique Tractor and Hobby Club brings in antique tractors and farm equipment that not only go on display but parade around the village, much to the delight of young and old. Even though my father’s tractor isn’t the oldest, his smile as he drives it around the central square might be the biggest of the bunch.
To commemorate the 50th anniversary, a tree was planted in front of the school house. The evening celebration was centered around the square in the centre of the village. The central gazebo was adorned with lights and dominion decorations, live bands were brought into perform including The Ever-Lovin’ Jug Band who put on a fantastic show. The General store was selling fresh baked cookies and traditional candy and it was all capped off with an amazing fireworks show.
My iphone trigger finger was happy to be involved in the festivities as the light was phenomenal. Even my neice got involved by using her ipod to snap some shots and we both loved comparing notes over the images we captured. The team at Westfield really put on a great party which was no surprise considering all the time and care they put in to running the village every week.
Westfield Heritage Village is located at 1049 Kirkwall Road (formerly Regional Road 552), off Highway 8 in Rockton. Westfield is open Sundays and holidays from 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. April to October. Special events run from March to December, hours may vary.
Note: this is the sixth installment in my own version of #52ancestors where geneabloggers have been asked to write about a different ancestor every week for a year. To understand the concept, read my blog entry from January 19, 2014.
Awake before anyone really should be, I decided to browse through my favourite website ancestry.ca before getting ready for work. Lo and behold I found a little leaf shaking on my tree where a leaf hadn’t been shaking for a long time. Eureka! A potential find!
James Noah Lovejoy
As the first of his line to come to Canada, I already had a soft spot for this Englishman-com-Hamiltonian. Here’s how I’m related to James Noah Lovejoy:
Corina Hill Harris (Me)
Elizabeth Marlene Hill (Mother)
Elizabeth (Betty) Mae Lovejoy (Grandmother)
Victor Wilfred Lovejoy (Great-Grandfather)
Franklin William Lovejoy (2x Great-Grandfather)
James Noah Lovejoy (3x Great-Grandfather)
He was born in the parish of St. James Norland in the county of Middlesex and was baptized on October 25, 1857. Through the baptismal certificate I could see his parents names as Thomas and Harriet Lovejoy but being not from England, a little more research is required.
I don’t know about you but I always need to look things up when I find a place. I feel an innate need to actually understand where I came from, not just who I came from. So I turned to the trusty Google and began searching for the church. Google brought me upon this record from familysearch.org that outlined what the church is and how it has changed after amalgamating. In searching for the two names of St Clement and St James, I found this tidbit on the church website:
A listed Grade II National Heritage building, St James’s Church (1845) stands impressively at the centre of St James’s Gardens, at the Holland Park end of the parish. The spacious and majestic interior, beautifully illuminated by the original stained glass windows, enhances a reverent but unfussy approach to the Eucharist.
The outstanding church organ is highly valued by the congregation, as well as a variety of orchestras and other music projects which practice and perform in the church.
That of course brought me to Google maps to try and find the location. The church of St Clement and St James is located in London, England near Norland’s Square and Notting Hill. The church is stunning to see but it wasn’t why I was looking up my 3x great grandfather James Noah Lovejoy.
The leaf shaking on my tree was for the opposite of a baptism – his death certificate. I had known that he had traveled to Canada on the Medway back in 1872 at the age of 15. It was only fitting that he would settle just down the road from me in Hamilton, Ontario. He married Elizabeth Mepham and she was the witness on his death certificate.
James died of influenza on March 26, 1932. He had been sick for 17 days but there were some other complications including nephitis (inflammation of the kidneys) and something ineligible to my untrained eye.
He and his wife Elizabeth lived on 24 Hazel Avenue, Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario and had for 54 years.
His parents are listed as Thomas Lovejoy and Harriet Palmer. Harriet’s last name had been eluding me until this one document unlocked the key to a future search.
His occupation is listed as Steel Worker at Steel Co Canada. (Could this has contributed to his health ailments and his death?)
He was buried in the Hamilton Cemetery on March 28, 1932.
Knowing how much I love looking things up online, this caused me to turn to all the Cemetery Finding Aids I could. I did find his name listed here as being located in the Hamilton Cemetery, Church of the Ascension-D, but thus far haven’t been able to locate a head stone through all of my many searches.
I will keep looking, and it may involve my very own head stone research. After all, it isn’t every day you locate your 3x great grandfather, and the first of his line to come to Canada.
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For 6 weeks of the year something very special happens in a small part of the world and we happen to live there. The climate conditions in the North Eastern part of North America are perfect for Sugar Maple trees to produce a sweet tasting sap first discovered by the Indigenous peoples hundreds of years ago. In time that knowledge was shared with the early settlers of Canada and ever since the task of boiling sap into maple syrup and maple sugar has been a sign of surviving another winter and welcoming spring.
Each year maple syrup festivities happen throughout Ontario and Quebec. Did you know that Canada supplies 80% of the world’s maple syrup? No wonder we associate this laborious activity as a Canadian rite of passage. This year Westfield will not be hosting a Festival. We are giving our maple trees a well- deserved break. While our volunteers will miss the sweet tasting maple syrup samples they won’t miss carrying 12,000 litres of sap or frozen fingers and toes from standing outside over an open fire.
Visitors to Westfield though can still learn about the magic of turning sap to syrup. This year visitors can come out to the conservation area from March to the end of May and learn all about the process of making maple syrup. Beautiful new information panels are scattered through our trail system carefully explaining how sap comes to be in the maple tree, how the sap is harvested and then processed to make a sweet treat that we love to eat.
Take advantage of our various maps to either explore our trails, find out more about our historical village or maybe the kids in your group would like to play along with our children’s maps. We are having some fun with a scavenger hunt. Can you find 14 wooden maple leaves? Sunday afternoons in March are a good time to visit our Gift Shop to buy maple syrup products or stop by the General Store for a sweet maple treat. Both shops are open from 12 noon to 4:00 p.m. We are following all the necessary covid protocols so remember your mask.
Westfield is open seven days a week from dawn to dusk. Admission starts at $15.50 per car. Watch for notices on our website and facebook page for most up to date information regarding site conditions and activities.
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By Aaron Isaacs, HRA editor
I’m always surprised at the amount of railway preservation that’s out there if you know where to look. We first think about the larger railway museums with collections of rolling stock and often buildings, established institutions in business to tell you about the history of railroading. What we tend to overlook are all the general history museums that have a railroad component, the small depot museums, and places that aren’t so much museums as they are public displays. That’s always been the case in the US, and it’s the same in Canada.
HeritageRail Alliance Board Member Don Evans volunteers with the West Coast Railway Association in Squamish, BC. A year ago he was instrumental in bringing the Canadian Council for Rail Heritage into the HRA. Now he’s working to increase the number of Canadian HRA members. There are currently 18. So Don set out to determine the number of potential recruits.
Each year TRAINS Magazine publishes an insert that lists tourist railroads and railway museums. I’ve always considered it to be pretty complete. The 2018 edition has 47 Canadian entries. But in fact there are many more. Deborah Sankey went through the Canadian Trackside Guide, the comprehensive annual reference work on everything that runs on Canadian rails. She found 238 places that do railway preservation. See the list below.
All told, the 238 places own almost 1500 pieces of rolling stock. That’s an impressive number.
So here’s the list, noting who are HRA members, who is listed in the TRAINS Magazine guide, a count of rolling stock pieces, and who runs trains. There’s more to see in Canada than you thought.
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Natural hazards are a part of the national park experience. Learn the most common risks and how to avoid them.
Nature and science
Research and monitoring help protect Yoho’s mammals and birds. We manage forest fires, restore habitat for species at risk and protect rare fossils.
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With diverse terrain embracing everything from arid grasslands to glaciers, Kootenay National Park offers the full Rocky Mountain experience along the historic Banff-Windermere Highway. Take a scenic drive or stay and explore the park’s treasures.
Jasper National Park
Abundant in natural beauty, wildlife, lakes, waterfalls and mountains, Jasper is a wild and wondrous place to visit year-round.
Banff National Park
Founded in 1885, Banff is Canada’s first national park and part of the first national park system in the world. With its soaring peaks, azure lakes and abundant wildlife, this Rocky Mountain park attracts millions of visitors every year.
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Hamilton, from the point at which it was first colonized by settlers, has benefited from its geographical proximity to major land and water transportation routes along the Niagara Peninsula and Lake Ontario. Its strategic importance has created, by Canadian standards, a rich military history which the city preserves.
Tension between maximizing economic growth and minimizing environmental damage was evident, even from the city's early development. The area between Burlington Bay (also known as Hamilton Harbour) and the Niagara Escarpment has been greatly altered for residential, industrial and recreational purposes. Cootes Paradise in Dundas also known as the Dundas Marsh, was a very rich wetland with plenty of fish, birds and other game. Cootes Paradise was named after Captain Thomas Coote,[1] a British army officer of Irish extraction who was stationed in the area at the time of the American revolutionary war in the 18th century. The richness of the valley led to population, and to degradation of the marsh, although its legal protection, starting in the 1880s, and the efforts of civic officials and others, have led to it still being of great environmental importance in the 21st century.
For about a century after achieving its status as a city in 1846, Hamilton has seen itself in terms of industrial production. It adopted or acquired such nicknames as the Ambitious City, Steel City and the Birmingham of Canada. However, after this period, other sectors of the economy took over and Hamilton became a post-industrial economy but failed to change its image and self-image to match. Here then follows the growth of the Hamilton until the end of the Second World War.
Prior to colonization, Hamilton was occupied by the Chonnonton, or Attiwandaronk, an Iroquois-speaking nation referred to by French explorers as the "Neutral" people.[2] Since then, there have been successive waves of immigration.
Pre-1811
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Like most of the Americas, the original inhabitants of the Hamilton area were Native North American Aboriginal peoples. The first European to visit what is now Hamilton was probably Étienne Brûlé in 1616. Lasalle also visited the area, a fact commemorated at a park in nearby Burlington.[3]
In pre-colonial times, the Neutral Nation occupied most of the land but were gradually driven out by the Iroquois who were allied with British against the French and their Huron allies. A member of the Iroquois Confederacy provided both the route and name for Mohawk Road on Hamilton Mountain and the route for what would become King Street in the Lower City.
Like British North America itself, the Six Nations confederacy was torn apart by the American Revolution. Indigenous groups loyal to the Crown, under their leader Captain Joseph Brant, were settled in several nearby areas of what became Upper Canada in 1791 and ultimately Ontario in 1867. These included Brant’s Ford (now Brantford) on the Grand River in Brant County south of Hamilton, and Brant’s Block (now Burlington) in Halton County north of Hamilton.[4]
The United Empire Loyalists moved into the Hamilton area during and after the American War of Independence as well, dramatically boosting the population and economic development of the region between the original Upper Canadian capital at Newark (now Niagara-on-the-Lake) and the new one at York (now Toronto).[5] This was to prove crucial, for the fighting between the United States and Britain was not yet over.
Administratively, the whole area was part of the Nassau District, which was renamed the Home District in 1792. Additionally, parts of the area were separately incorporated into the West Riding of York County and First Riding of Lincoln County. In 1798, most of the future Hamilton became part of Niagara District while remaining in Lincoln County.[6]
1812–1844
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The town of Hamilton was conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812.[4] Nathaniel Hughson, a property owner to the north, cooperated with George Hamilton to prepare a proposal for a courthouse and jail on Hamilton's property. Hamilton offered the land to the crown for the future site. James Durand, the local Member of the British Legislative Assembly, was empowered by Hughson and Hamilton to sell property holdings which later became the site of the town. As he had been instructed, Durand circulated the offers at York during a session of the Legislative Assembly and a new Gore District was established of which the Hamilton town site was a member. As such, Hamilton's future seemed to be shaped by a private collaboration of Hamilton, Hughson and Durand.[7]
Initially the Town of Hamilton was not the dominant center of the Gore District. A permanent jail was not constructed until 1832 when a cut-stone design was completed on one of the two squares created in 1816, Prince's Square.[7] Subsequently, the first police board and the town limits were defined by statute on February 13 of 1833.[8]
After simmering treaty and border disputes finally erupted into the War of 1812, the Hamilton area again became a strategic area. In 1813, the British regulars and Canadian militia defeated invading American troops at the Battle of Stoney Creek which was fought in what is now a park in eastern Hamilton. Burlington Heights, adjacent to the grounds of present-day Dundurn Park and Castle, was also a site commanding the entry to Burlington Bay.[9]
George Hamilton, a settler and local politician, established a town site in the northern portion Barton Township after the war in 1815. He kept several east–west roads which were originally Indian trails, but the north–south streets were on a regular grid pattern. Streets were designated "East" or "West" if they crossed James Street or King’s Highway No. 6. Streets were designated "North" or "South" if they crossed King Street or King’s Highway No. 8.[4]
Gore Park, whose western boundary is King and James Streets, formed the public square for the new settlement and has remained the centre of the city ever since. The original plot of land set aside for the courthouse has had four different buildings erected on it. It was only supplanted as the court site by a move across the street in the 1990s as part of an architectural preservation project for the Post Office and Dominion Public Building.
Gore District of Upper Canada and Wentworth County were created in 1816, with Mr. Hamilton’s settlement as the seat for both. The county’s original constituent townships included the following, the territory of which became part of the amalgamated Hamilton in 2001: Ancaster (later a town), Barton, Binbrook (later one half of Glanbrook), Glanford (later the other half of Glanbrook) and Saltfleet (later the town and city of Stoney Creek). Seneca and Brant Townships were also original constituents of the county but later became part of Haldimand County and Brant County, respectively.
During the first half of the 19th century, Mr. Hamilton’s settlement in Barton Township steadily increased status at the expense of Dundas. Growth was aided in 1810 by a channel cut to link Burlington Bay directly with Lake Ontario, thus improving its marine transportation. George Hamilton’s settlement was incorporated as a police village in 1833. In comparison, the Desjardins Canal to Dundas was at best an incomplete success. The physical structures, with living interpreters, of these pioneer days are preserved at Westfield Heritage Centre.
As railway fever raced across North America, Hamilton prematurely got in the act with the promotion of various paper lines in the 1830s. This included Allan Napier MacNab’s Hamilton and Port Dover Railway which, although chartered in 1835, did not actually lay any track until the mid-1850s under a different corporate name. MacNab completed Dundurn Castle, his stately home, in 1835. A boy soldier in the War of 1812, he led Gore militia to crush insurgents in the Rebellion of 1837 for which he was knighted the following year.
1845–1866
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Official City status was achieved on June 9, 1846.[10]
As a result of municipal reorganization of Wentworth County, Caistor Township (earlier and later part of West Lincoln) was briefly added in 1845. Hamilton received its city charter in 1846. Seneca, Onondaga and Caistor Townships were removed from the administration of county and replaced with three others from Halton County: Beverly, East Flamborough and West Flamborough (which were amalgamated as the Town of Flamborough 1974-2000).
Hamilton City Council was based on a board of control, which effectively meant an executive committee of at-large city councillors controlled the city government. Mayors were short-term figureheads who changed mostly on practically an annual basis. The same year Hamilton became a city, Robert Smiley and a partner began publishing ‘’The Hamilton Spectator and Journal of Commerce".
As MacNab completed his two years as the premier of the united Province of Canada, the newly renamed Great Western Railway became Hamilton’s first functioning railway in 1854. Completion of this railway and the Niagara Suspension Bridge transformed Hamilton into a major centre and part of the American immigration route from New York City or Boston to Chicago or Milwaukee.[4] Over two hundred miles of distance was saved travelling through what was then called CANADA WEST. However, because of the different gauge or width between the American and Canadian tracks, passengers had to switch trains at both Niagara Falls, then known as Clifton, as well as at Detroit. The GWR’s maintenance and marshalling yards were located in Hamilton, and the city got its first taste of the steel industry as it re-rolled rails imported from Britain. Unfortunately, in 1857, 57 passengers were killed when a train derailed near the Desjardins Canal.
Not content with this relatively minor operation, dozens of small workshops and craftsmen banded together to smelt steel rather than just mill steel. Easy access to limestone from the Niagara Escarpment, coal mined in Appalachia, iron ore mined from the Canadian Shield and export markets through the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence system made Hamilton an important iron and steel producing city.
Other industrial ventures conducted in the Ambitious City (a phrase adopted by ‘’The Spectator" from detractors in Toronto) and Birmingham of Canada included manufactured tobacco, beer and other consumer products. It also became a centre for the textile industry, which did not die out completely until the 1950s.
Long before the Royal Military College of Canada was established in 1876, there were proposals for military colleges in Canada. Staffed by British Regulars, adult male students underwent a 3-month-long military course from 1865 at the School of Military Instruction in Hamilton. Established by Militia General Order in 1865, the school enabled Officers of Militia or Candidates for Commission or promotion in the Militia to learn Military duties, drill and discipline, to command a Company at Battalion Drill, to Drill a Company at Company Drill, the internal economy of a Company and the duties of a Company's Officer.[11] The school was not retained at Confederation, in 1867.[12]
1867–1892
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When the Dominion of Canada was created in 1867, Hamilton was an enthusiastic partner in the bold new political enterprise and preached the joys of the British Empire. The city was represented in the House of Commons by one seat for the city proper and two for the remainder of the county (Wentworth South and Wentworth North).
Growing commercial and industrial prosperity prompted large scale emigration from the British Isles. Many Irish immigrants created a Corktown in the general vicinity of John and Hunter Streets. Patriotic Britons and native born Canadians of British stock erected many public monuments downtown to honour John A. Macdonald, Queen Victoria and the United Empire Loyalists. More people meant more demand for services and information. In 1874, the Hamilton Street Railway (HSR) began offering horse-drawn public transportation.[13][14]
Robert Smiley, the founding publisher of The Spectator, sold the newspaper to William Southam in 1877 as the first link in the Southam newspaper chain. A unified and paid Hamilton Fire Department, replaced the numerous volunteer fire companies in 1879, led by fire chief Alexander Aitchison.
The Hamilton area was also intimately connected with the early history of the telephone. While staying at his parents’ Brantford home in neighbouring Brant County, Alexander Graham Bell conceived of the idea of the telephone in 1874 and made the first experimental long-distance call to Paris, Ontario in 1876. The following year, retired Baptist minister Thomas Peter Henderson become the first General Agent for the telephone business in Canada. In 1878, the first telephone exchange in the British Empire was opened in Hamilton by Hugh Cossart Baker, Jr.[15] On May 15, 1879, Hugh Cossart Baker Jr. makes Hamilton the site of the first commercial long-distance telephone line in the British Empire.[16]
More workers and new immigrants encouraged a nascent trade union movement among skilled craftsmen. Hamilton unionists and other working-class people gave birth in 1872 the Nine Hour Movement, urging the government to limit working hours to nine per day.[17]
A more modest but still unstable railway boom marked the last part of the 19th century too. The Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway was incorporated in 1884, and by 1892 offered limited cargo service and ultimately passenger service.[18] Electrical railways which sporadically linked Hamilton with Grimsby, Beamsville, Brantford and Oakville were established the following decade.
1893–1905
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Modernization and business consolidation often went hand in hand with unionization. The HSR converted to electrically powered vehicles in 1892. In keeping with the area’s reputation, the firefighters unionized in 1896. As it was absorbed by Hamilton Electric Light and Power Company in 1899, HSR workers joined Division (now Local) 107 of the predecessor of the current Amalgamated Transit Union.
But it was definitely not all work and no play for local residents. In 1894, Hamilton Herald newspaper and cigar store owner Billy Carroll established the Around the Bay Road Race. The route circumnavigates Burlington Bay and, although it is not a proper marathon, it is the longest continuously held long distance foot race in North America. It was won by such sporting greats as William "Billy" Sherring, Tom Longboat and Sam Mellor.
Adelaide Hoodless and other founded the first Women’s Institute in Saltfleet Township (Stoney Creek) in 1897 and began her educational campaign for home economics. A year after she died in 1910, one of Hamilton’s many new schools was named in her honour.[19]
Hamiltonians, like other residents of the colonies, discovered one of the darker sides of British Imperialism when the South African War broke out in 1899. Men from Wentworth County and other Canadians volunteered to serve in the Canadian Mounted Rifles or North-West Mounted Police contingents. Although they excelled at the bitter guerrilla war there against the Boers, its conclusion in 1902 served as an omen for the future.
Ernest D’Israeli Smith, after being frustrated by paying to have his fruit transported from the Stoney Creek area, had founded a company in 1882 to market directly to wholesalers and eliminate the middleman. Smith & Sons Ltd. continues operating today, and has since the early 20th century has sold manufactured preserves and jams. Its namesake founder served as the Conservative MP for Wentworth around the start of the 20th century.
By the end of the 19th century, symbolically marked by the death of Queen Victoria in the first days of the 20th century, Hamilton expanded to the approximate limits of the Mountain Brow to the south, Chedoke Creek to the west and Gage Avenue to the east.
Through natural increase and immigration, the urban Hamilton-rural Wentworth population balance shifted so much that in 1904 the federal ridings were redistributed. While the total number of MPs remained the same, two were now from the city proper (Hamilton East and Hamilton West) and one represented the rest of the county.
1906–1918
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Hamilton had a momentous year in 1906: local boy Billy Sherring won an Olympic gold medal at Athens for the marathon.[19] The Amalgamated Transit Union struck against the HSR in a bitter labour dispute. The working class voters of Hamilton East, sympathetic to the ATU, elected Allan Studholme as their Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. For years he stood as the lone labour representative in the legislature, championing the eight-hour day, workmen's compensation, the minimum wage and women's suffrage.
The steel industry continued to grow and finally consolidate through this period, some combining to form the Steel Company of Canada in 1910 and others the Dominion Steel Casting Company in 1912. Stelco and Dofasco, as they became colloquially and then legally known, were located in the north end to take advantage of the transportation and cooling opportunities provided by access to the water.[17] Industrial waste from the industries along the waterfront led to Hamilton Harbour becoming heavily polluted with industrial waste.[20]
Hamilton's radial railway system became increasing unified. In 1907–8, the interurban railways' parent company reorganized and renamed itself to the Dominion Power and Transmission Company, opening a new main station downtown at the same time: the Hamilton Terminal Station. Passenger services were reorganized so that the different lines would meet there, while the older stations were largely relegated to freight service.[21] Cars were increasingly operated on each other's lines, allowing single-seat trips such as from Oakville to Brantford without the need for a transfer.
The infant science of aviation found early and enthusiastic supporters in Hamilton. Jack Elliot established an airport in the north end near Stelco which in 1911 hosted the first Canadian Air Meet. Pioneering aviator J.A.D. McCurdy won that contest, sponsored in part by the newly minted Hamilton Automobile Club (now CAA South Central Ontario).
Emigration continued from Britain and the United States (chiefly blacks) during this period as local museums show, but also began from other countries such as Italy and Austria-Hungary. Remarkably, thousands of Italian Hamiltonians are descendants of emigrants in this period from a single Sicilian town, commemorated by the dual naming of Murray Street as Corso Raculmuto.
Increased population and prosperity prompted a building boom. As a publicity stunt and raffle, workers and contractors built a house in a day in 1913 which was later featured in a Ripley's Believe It or Not! cartoon. The same year, the Hamilton Public Library opened its new building funded by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. (The site was renovated and now houses the Family Court.)
Hamiltonians participated in the First World War as combatants, but due to Col. Sir Sam Hughes' mobilization plans for the Canadian Expeditionary Force, there were no major battles associated purely with Hamiltonians. The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry later perpetuated the battle honours of four of these consecutively numbered Overseas Battalions of the CEF.
Heavy industry boomed as the Canadian and British governments' war driven demands for steel, arms, munitions and textiles increased. Unfortunately, in their quest to expand, the twin steel giants damaged the land by infilling Hamilton Harbour and burying or diverting many creeks which formerly flowed into the bay. War profiteering by manufacturers dampened some of the mood, but generally Hamiltonians pulled together.
1919–1938
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The United Farmers of Ontario won the most seats in the 1919 provincial election and formed a coalition government with the Independent Labour Party. Walter Rollo, Member of the Legislative Assembly for Hamilton West, became the first Ontario Minister of Labour in this government.
The Hamilton Board of Education resumed its ambitious building program for schools. Their names often honoured the memory of war veterans: Memorial School, Allenby School and Earl Kitchener School. The educational building boom was coupled with a residential housing boom in which hundreds of low-rise apartment buildings, of three to four stories and six to ten units, grew up across the city, especially in the east end.
Higher education—disregarding its normal school or teachers college—arrived in Hamilton in 1930. McMaster University was founded in Toronto as a Baptist institution of higher learning. Funded by a bequest of Senator William McMaster in 1887, it was in danger of becoming absorbed by the University of Toronto. Hamilton’s municipal government, civic boosters and ordinary residents lured the university to the city with grants of land and money in 1930.[22] Not only did McMaster preserve its independence, but it began publishing The Silhouette student newspaper, now an award-winning weekly broadsheet.
Local boosters also ensured that Hamilton hosted the inaugural Empire Games, now known as the Commonwealth Games in 1930. Amateur athletes from around the British Empire and Commonwealth gathered to compete at Hamilton Civic Stadium, the current site of Ivor Wynne Stadium as a result of the efforts of Melville Marks Robinson.[23]
The Great Depression of the 1930s hit Hamilton hard. The simultaneous and prolonged decline in domestic consumption and international trade in finished industrial goods and building supplies put a stop to residential and institutional construction for a decade. It was in this context of privation that Dr. Elizabeth Bagshaw started her illegal birth control clinic in 1931.[22]
Emotional relief from the Depression was found in the Washingtons, local brothers who performed as a blues quartet throughout Ontario.[24] Practical relief was found in government works projects designed to prime the economy and which added to the long-term attractiveness of Hamilton.
Thomas B. McQuesten, a Hamilton lawyer, alderman, and MLA, served as minister of transportation and chairman Niagara Parks Commission from 1934 to 1943. He spearheaded the construction of the Queen Elizabeth Way, a controlled access highway which links Fort Erie with Toronto via Hamilton, and the Mountain access for Highway 20 in Stoney Creek. He founded Royal Botanical Gardens, seeing the institution through from an early concept in the 1920s to incorporation and staffing in the 1940s. Whitehern, his downtown family home, now serves as a civic museum.[25]
1939–1945
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In the Second World War, Britain decided to shore up its support in the Dominions by having a royal visit to Canada. When King George VI and his consort Queen Elizabeth visited Canada in May and June 1939, they stopped in Hamilton and also opened up the QEW.[26]
Hamiltonians like others in Canada and the world welcomed the spike of economic demand caused by the war but not its source. Heavy industry again began spewing out its pollutants, and by the end of the war the ecological cost of pollution had taken its toll on Hamilton: heavy metals made fish from the Hamilton Harbour inedible, air pollution made breathing difficult and industrial dumps contaminated land.
Unlike the First World War, in this war the Canadian Army mobilized its territorially recruited militia units as a body rather than soliciting individuals to serve in conglomerated units. Men of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (colloquially known as the Rileys) and the rest of the 2nd Canadian Division were mobilized early, but sat on their hands in Britain for two years. The Hamilton area was also active in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF): the city proper sponsored 424 "Tiger" Squadron by buying bombers to equip it.
On the home front, the public not only eagerly followed the progress of the war, but they also got a chance to see airmen in action. In 1940, as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, the Royal Canadian Air Force established a station in Glanford Township. Hundreds of Commonwealth pilots and other aircrew were trained at RCAF Station Mount Hope, and some unfortunate ones are still buried there.
The army’s enforced idleness—disregarding their unsuccessful foray to France in May 1940 and disastrous defence of Hong Kong in December 1941—led to discontent in the army, the public and the government. In this atmosphere, the timing was ripe for Lord Louis Mountbatten’s ill-advised and unauthorized raid-in-force. The Rileys lost hundreds of its young men on a single day in 1942, when they were effectively wiped out as a fighting force at Dieppe. In 1943, the Hamilton Parks Police, a special constable force was formed.[27]
When the war finally ended, Hamilton was a much different place. Women had permanently entered the paid workforce. The lean times of the Great Depression were over—and veterans were going to make sure that happened.
Notable people from Hamilton prior to 1946
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Historical populationYearPop.±% 1816 668— 1833 1,000+49.7% 1841 3,000+200.0% 1846 6,832+127.7% 1850 10,248+50.0% 1861 19,096+86.3% 1871 26,716+39.9% 1880 35,009+31.0% 1890 44,643+27.5% 1900 51,561+15.5% 1910 70,221+36.2% 1914 100,808+43.6% 1920 108,143+7.3% 1929 134,566+24.4% 1939 155,276+15.4% 1945 175,364+12.9% 1950 192,125+9.6% 1960 258,576+34.6% 1970 296,826+14.8% 1980 306,640+3.3% 1990 307,160+0.2% 2002† 490,268+59.6% 2006 504,559+2.9% 2011 519,949+3.1%Source: [28][29][30]
†2002=Post-Amalgamation.
People associated with Hamilton who became well-known prior to 1946 are listed below in the order of their birth year.
Étienne Brûlé, (1592–1633), The first European to visit what is now Hamilton was probably Étienne Brûlé in 1616.[4]
Robert Land, (1736–1818), veteran of the American Revolution and one of Hamilton's founding citizens.[4]
John Askin, (1739–1815), was a fur trader, merchant and official in Upper Canada.[31]
Nathaniel Hughson, (1755–1837), Farmer & hotel owner, Loyalist who moved to Canada following the American Revolution, one of the city founders of Hamilton.[4]
William Rymal, (1759–1852), farmer and one of earliest settlers on the Hamilton mountain. Rymal Road was named after him.[4]
Richard Beasley (1761–1842), was a soldier, political figure, farmer and businessman in Upper Canada.[4]
John Vincent, (1764–1848), British army officer in the Battle of Stoney Creek, War of 1812.[4]
Richard Hatt (1769–1819), was a businessman, judge and political figure in Upper Canada.[32]
James Gage, (1774–1854), Lumber merchant, miller. Gage Avenue in the city named after him.[4]
James Durand, (1775–1833), was a businessman and political figure in Upper Canada.[33]
John Willson, (1776–1860) was a judge and political figure in Upper Canada.[34]
Peter Hess, (1779–1855), farmer, landowner. Peter and Hess Streets in the city named after him as well as Caroline Street named after one of his daughters.[4]
George Hamilton, (1788–1836), settler and city founder.[4]
Henry Beasley, (1793–1859), was a farmer and office-holder.[4]
Sir Allan MacNab, (Sir Allan Napier MacNab), (1798–1862), soldier, lawyer, businessman, knight and former Prime Minister of Upper Canada. MacNab Street in Hamilton is named after him.[4]
Thomas Stinson, (1798–1864), merchant, banker, landowner. He was an extensive landowner in not only in Hamilton but as well as Chicago, St. Paul, Minnesota, and Superior City, Wisconsin, which he named.[22]
George Perkins Boothesby Bull, (1795–1847), newspaper printer, publisher of one of Hamilton's early newspapers The Hamilton Gazette (1835–1856).[4]
Edward Jackson, (1799–1872), tinware manufacturer. Jackson Street in city named after him.[4]
Peter Hunter Hamilton, (1800–1857), landowner and businessman + half brother of city founder George Hamilton. Hunter Street in city named after him.[4]
Peter Jones, (1802-1856), known in Ojibwe as Kahkewāquonāby; Son of Augustus Jones and Tuhbenahneequay, Indigenous Methodist missionary and Chief of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, born on the Burlington Heights.[35]
Colin Campbell Ferrie, (1808–1856), Hamilton's first Mayor.[4]
Isaac Buchanan, (1810–1883), was a businessman and political figure in Canada West.[4]
Daniel C. Gunn, (1811–1876), wharfinger, locomotive manufacturer.[4]
James Jolley, (1813–1892), saddler, harnessmaker, politician. Funded construction of the Jolley Cut; a Mountain access road in Hamilton.[4]
John Rae, (1813-1893), physician, explorer. Discovered fate of the Lost Franklin Expedition; lived in Hamilton 1857–1860.[36]
Colin Campbell Ferrie, (1808–1856), Hamilton's first Mayor.[4]
Dennis Moore, (1817–1887), tinware manufacturer.[4]
Hugh Cossart Baker, Sr., (1818–1859), Banker, businessman, mathematician. Establishes the first life insurance company in Canada (21 August 1847); the Canada Life Assurance Company.[4]
Richard Wanzer, (1818–1900), sewing machine manufacturer.[4]
Thomas Mayne Daly Sr., (1827–1885), was a businessman and political figure in Canada West (later Ontario). He represented the riding of Perth North in the House of Commons of Canada and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.[37]
Thomas Bain, (1834–1915), Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons.[19]
Richard Butler, (1834–1925), editor, publisher, journalist. Butler neighbourhood in Hamilton named after him.[19]
George Elias Tuckett, (1835–1900), Tuckett Tobacco Company, Hamilton's 27th mayor.[4]
James McMillan, (1838–1902), was a U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan from 1889 to 1902.[38]
William Eli Sanford (1838–1899), was a Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and politician.[39]
George Washington Johnson, (1839–1917), teacher and songwriter; author of poem When You and I Were Young, Maggie, later turned into a song.
Sir John Morison Gibson, (1842–1929), lawyer, politician, businessman.[19]
Clementina Trenholme, (1844–1918), Clementina (Fessenden) Trenholme, author, social organizer. Also, mother of Reginald Fessenden, the radio pioneer. Had two neighbourhoods on the Hamilton Mountain named after her, Trenholme and Fessenden neighbourhoods.[19]
Hugh Cossart Baker, Jr., (1846–1931), businessman, telephone pioneer.[16]
William W. Cooke, (1846–1876), was a military officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War and the Black Hills War. He was the adjutant for George Armstrong Custer and was killed during the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Buried in Hamilton Cemetery.[4]
Allan Studholme, (1846–1919), stove maker and first Ontario Labour MLA.[40]
Campbell Leckie, (1848–1925), engineer. Leckie Park neighbourhood in Hamilton named after him.[19]
Sir William Osler, (1849–1919), 1st Baronet, the Father of Modern Medicine.[41]
Robert B. Harris, (1852–1933), businessman who established The Hamilton Herald newspaper in 1889.[19]
E. D. Smith, (1853–1948), farmer, businessman and politician.[22]
James Balfour , (1854–1917), architect, Canadas Life Assurance Company building at corner of King & James (1883), City Hall on corner of James & York (1888).[4]
Robert Kirkland Kernighan, (1854–1926), poet, journalist. Kernighan neighbourhood in Hamilton named after him.[19]
Robert Stanley Weir, (1856–1926), lawyer, poet, author, best remembered as the author of the English lyrics to O Canada.[19]
Charles S. Wilcox, (1856–1938), First president of Iron and Steel Company of Canada, (later called simply Stelco), which was formed from five companies, including his Hamilton Steel and Iron Company.[22]
Sir John Strathearn Hendrie, (1857–1923), was Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1914 to 1919.[19]
Adam Inch, (1857–1933), dairy farmer, politician. Inch Park neighbourhood in Hamilton named after him.[19]
Andrew Ross, (1857–1941), businessman, builder of Tivoli Theatre & Barton Street Arena.[22]
Adelaide Hoodless, (1858–1910), education and women’s activist.[19]
John Moodie Jr., (1859–1944), executive, hobbyist, drove first automobile in Canada in 1898; a one-cylinder Winton he imported from Cleveland, Ohio.[22]
Thomas Willson, (1860–1915), Canadian inventor, designed and patented the first electric arc lamps.[42]
Sydney Chilton Mewburn, (1863–1956), was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was the Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence from October 12, 1917 - January 15, 1920, under Sir Robert Borden's Union Government in 1917.[19]
John Charles Fields, (1863–1932), was a Canadian mathematician and the founder of the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics. the Fields Medal, is considered by some to be the Nobel Prize in Mathematics.[43]
Helen Gregory MacGill, (1864–1947), the first woman in British Columbia to be appointed a judge of the juvenile Court, a post she held for 23 years.[44]
Julia Arthur, (1868–1959), was a Canadian-born stage and film actress.[45]
Walter Rollo, first Ontario minister of labour.
John M. Lyle, (1872–1945), Canadian architect in the late 19th century; New York Public Library (1897), Royal Alexandra Theatre, in Toronto (1907), Union Station (Toronto) 1914–1921.[46]
Clifton Sherman, (1872–1955), founded Dominion Foundries and Steel (later called Dofasco) in 1912 (with his brother Frank Sherman), creating a giant that would bring prosperity and identity to the city.[47]
Jean Adair, (1873–1953), actress. Although she worked primarily on stage (sometimes billed as Jennet Adair), she made several film appearances late in her career, most notably as one of the misguided murdering aunts of Cary Grant in Arsenic and Old Lace.[48]
Charles William Bell, (1876–1938), Playwright, Politician and Rocco Perri's Lawyer.[22]
Florence Harvey, (1878–1968), Golf, Ontario Ladies Amateur Champion 1904, 1906, 1913, and 1914. Canadian Ladies Champion in 1903 and 1904. Founded and served on the executive of the Canadian Ladies Golf Association. Member of Canada's Golf Hall of Fame.[49]
William Sherring, (1878–1964), was a Canadian athlete, gold medal winner of the marathon race at the 1906 Summer Olympics.[23]
Elizabeth Bagshaw, (1881–1982), physician and birth control activist.[50]
John Christie Holland, (1882–1954), In 1924, became an ordained Minister and served as Pastor of Hamilton's Steward Memorial Church. The church has been designated an historic site by the Ontario government because its solid history and connection to the infamous Underground Railroad. 1953 was honored as Citizen of the Year in Hamilton, the first African Canadian to be given that recognition.[51]
Robert Kerr, (1882–1963), was an Irish-Canadian sprinter. He won the gold medal in the 200 metres and the bronze medal in the 100 metres at the 1908 Summer Olympics.[23]
Thomas Baker McQuesten, (1882–1948), lawyer and Ontario minister of transportation.[25]
Rocco Perri, (1887–1944), 1920s Gangster. 'King of the Bootleggers'.[22]
Frank Sherman, (1887–1967), Founded Dominion Foundries and Steel (later called Dofasco) in 1912 (with his brother Clifton Sherman), creating a giant that would bring prosperity and identity to the city.[34]
Harry Crerar, (1888–1965), was a Canadian general and the country's "leading field commander" in World War II.[52]
Besha Starkman, (1889–1907), Criminal. Rocco Perri's wife and partner in crime. ("the Brains")[22]
Douglass Dumbrille, (1889–1974), was an actor and one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood.[53]
James Lyle Telford, (1889–1960), was mayor of Vancouver, B.C., from 1939 to 1940.[54]
Florence Lawrence, (1890–1938), Hollywood's first movie star.[22]
Dick Irvin Sr., (1892–1957), NHL hockey player. Former head coach of Toronto Maple Leafs & Montreal Canadiens.[55]
Del Lord, (1894–1970), was a film director and actor best known as a director of Three Stooges films. (Grimsby Ontario)[56]
Helen Kinnear, (1894–1970), was a Canadian lawyer. She was the first federally appointed woman judge in Canada.[57]
Frank O'Rourke, (1894–1986), ex-pro MLB baseball player and long time New York Yankees scout.[58]
Cecil "Babe" Dye, (1898–1962), NHL hockey player, NHL's top goal scorer of the 1920s, inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1970.[55]
Harold A. Rogers, (1899–1994), was the founder of Kin Canada, is a Canadian non-profit service organization that promotes service, fellowship, positive values, and national pride.[59]
George Owen, (1901–1986) was a pro hockey defenceman for the Boston Bruins of the NHL.[60]
Robert McDonald, (1902–1956), was a Canadian soccer player from the 1920s and 1930s who spent a decade playing for famous Scottish football club Rangers.[61]
John Foote, (1904–1988), military chaplain and Ontario cabinet minister. Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross.
George Klein, (1904–1992), often called "the most productive inventor in Canada in the 20th century"; electric wheelchairs, microsurgical staple gun, the ZEEP nuclear reactor and the Canadarm.[63]
Red Horner, (1909–2005), ex-pro hockey player, helped Toronto Maple Leafs win their first Stanley Cup in 1932.[55]
Ray Lewis, (1910–2003), Track & Field, first Canadian-born Black Olympic medalist.[23]
Jackie Callura, (1914–1943), Canadian featherweight Boxer, World featherweight champion 1943.[23]
Harold E. Johns, (1915–1998), was a Canadian medical physicist, noted for his extensive contributions to the use of ionizing radiation to treat cancer.[64]
Jackie Washington, (1919-2009), blues musician and railway worker.[65]
Joe Krol, (1919-2008), Canadian Football quarterback (1932–53), Lou Marsh Trophy winner as Canada's top athlete in 1946.[23]
Syl Apps, (1915–1998), Legendary Toronto Maple Leafs captain who led the Leafs to 3-Stanley Cups. McMaster University Alumni. (Paris Ontario).[55]
Win Mortimer, (1919–1998), was a comic book and comic strip artist for the DC Comics superhero Superman.[66]
Leo Reise Jr., (1922-2015), retired NHL hockey defenseman. 494-games played in the 1940s & 1950s for Detroit, Chicago and NY Rangers.[55]
John Callaghan, (1923–2004), Canadian cardiologist who pioneered open-heart surgery.[67]
See also
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Economic History of Hamilton, Ontario
History of Ontario
List of National Historic Sites of Canada in Hamilton, Ontario
List of royal visits to Hamilton, Ontario
Timeline of events in Hamilton, Ontario
References
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Further reading
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Freeman, Bill (14 October 2006). Hamilton: A People's History. James Lorimer & Company. ISBN 9781550289367.
Historical documentation
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Many other websites contain some photographs and other documentation, but these sites contain primarily these.
Canadian Souvenir View Albums (Hamilton, Ontario)
Cultural Landmarks of Hamilton Wentworth
Federated Women’s Institutes of Ontario
Postcards from Hamilton's Past
Vintage Postcards of Hamilton, Ontario
HistoricalHamilton.com, A Historical Photographic Tour of Hamilton's Past
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History of the Waterdown Legion The Waterdown Legion started out in Mr. Klodt’s barbershop. In 1953 it was located on the corner of Cedar and Hamilton Street in a Quonset hut. Mr. Nigel Charlong, past president, and building chairman,
Art Gallery of Hamilton
Welcome to the Art Gallery of Hamilton The AGH strives to create a space where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity and enact a welcoming and safer space for all. The Gallery endeavours to maintain a willingness to engage in
Rotary Club of Waterdown
Founded in 1955, the Rotary Club of Waterdown is a community-based service club that's part of Rotary International. Our motto is "Service Above Self". The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of
Oh Canada Ribfest
What is ROTARY ? Waterdown's Oh Canada Ribfest is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Flamborough AM and the Rotary Club of Waterdown, with about 50 members in total. We are all members of Rotary International, a worldwide service club of people who
Joseph Brant Hospital Foundation
Joseph Brant Hospital performs a crucial role in the health of our community. But government funding only covers a portion of operating costs. Joseph Brant Hospital relies on donor support to fund urgent equipment and technology needs and these
The Down Syndrome Association of Hamilton
The Down Syndrome Association of Hamilton is a registered charity We support individuals with Down syndrome and their families, throughout their lives. We assist our members in accessing information, services, and supports that enhance health,
Animal Adoptions Of Flamborough
Our Mission A registered pet charity dedicated to the care of surrendered, abandoned, abused and neglected cats and dogs, and finding them their new Forever Homes. About ANIMAL ADOPTIONS OF FLAMBOROUGH The Society For Animal Adoptions of Flamborough
Waterdown Museum of Hope
A New Way of Teaching History Waterdown District High School, sandwiched between Toronto and Hamilton in Southern Ontario, is home to the Waterdown Museum of Hope. Run and guided by students from the Grade 11 Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Flamborough Dundas Soccer Club
Welcome to the Flamborough Dundas Soccer Club The Flamborough Dundas Soccer Club has been proudly offering the youth of our community the opportunity to participate in community-based soccer for many years, until recently as separate clubs, but now
Interval House of Hamilton
Interval House of Hamilton consists of the Victoria & Friends emergency 22-bed shelter, as well as community programs, for women and their children who are experiencing family violence, abuse and/or human trafficking. Founded in 1986, Interval
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You are not alone. SACHA has been working for over forty years to support survivors of sexual assault while working to end violence and oppression. SACHA is a feminist, non-profit,
Routes Youth Centre
Routes Youth Centre allows youth in the Dundas and Hamilton area to come together and participate in non-structured and structured programming. Join us for a round of Mario Party during drop-in time, learn something new during workshop, join us for
YMCA of Hamilton|Burlington|Brantford
About Your YMCA. Across more than 120+ locations in Hamilton, Burlington, Brantford and Haliburton, we are a charity committed to promoting equity and improving the health and well-being of people of all backgrounds, abilities, including at-risk and
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Waterdown Farmer's Market
THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE MARKET FOR 2024 Location Find us at the Royal Canadian Legion - Waterdown Branch - 79 Hamilton St. N. Waterdown, ON. Look for vendor tents in the east portion of the parking lot on Saturday mornings 8 AM - 1 PM from the end
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Location: Highway 52, off Highway 8, just west of Rockton, Ontario
Since its opening in 1964, the Westfield Heritage Centre has had a long and interesting past. The centre offers a view of what life in Ontario was like prior to Confederation. It is built on 340 hectares (840 acres) of land in the Rockton area, near the African Lion Safari, with a number of historical buildings designed to take visitors through a piece of Ontario's history.
Westfield is the product of three Brantford teachers' desire to provide a hands-on educational experience from which their students would learn about pioneer life. Their idea was to preserve mid-19th century buildings and equip them with appropriate artifacts and tools, in order to make the experience of visiting the village as authentic as possible.
Coming to be known as the Westfield Pioneer Village Association, the historical group planned for the site to include a village church, school house, grist mill, covered bridge, general store, an inn, a printer's shop, a shoemaker's shop, a cabinet maker's shop, a drug store and a number of homes.
In 1961, the Association acquired 30 acres of land for the project. Shortly thereafter, the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo (TH&B) railway house at Jerseyville was moved to the village. A frame hotel from Middlesex County and a printing shop from Huron were also acquired for the site. Equipment for a general store was brought in from Elgin County, while hotel furnishings and early farm equipment Norfolk and apothecary equipment were brought in from from Oxford. An authentic 1500's-style press was placed in the print shop.
The village was unofficially opened to the public in June of 1963, and an official opening was held the following year, in June of 1964.
An ancient Indian church, which had been moved from the Six Nations Indian Reserve to Westfield was opened in 1965. It was built in 1814 at Stone Ridge (on the Six Nations Reservation), making it the oldest church in Ontario. When it was moved to the site, it was dedicated to all Christian faiths.
By 1967, the village founders began seeking Wentworth County Council support, even though the village was not experiencing any financial difficulty. The founders simply wanted county administration of the village and for the county to assume responsibility for its continued operation. They were also hoping that if the County were to take over the village, then it would not only find a place on the map, but would also be safe if current members of Westfield Pioneer Village Association lost interest or died.
In May of 1968, the Westfield Pioneer Village was purchased by the county for $32,700. It became an official county property on November 1,1968. At this time, plans were being made to further expand the village by acquiring at least eight more buildings.
One of the buildings that opened not long after the County's acquisition of the village was Dr. Beattie's Drug Store. Originally located in the small north-Burlington community of Kilbride in the late 1800s, it was moved to the village and re-opened on August 15th, 1971. It was fully-equipped with authentic mid-19th century items. In 1971 there was also the opening of the Apple Hill post office.
Unfortunately, by this time the village was beginning to run into some financial difficulties. The centre was over budgeted and the county began to have doubts as to whether it should continue its involvement with the village. The City Council voted to place elected officials in control of the village. In 1972, ownership of Westfield Pioneer Village was transferred to the Hamilton-Wentworth region.
The village continued its expansion in 1975 by acquiring such buildings as a mud block house and spinning wheel shop which were built in 1837. In 1977, TH&B Engine 103 was moved to the village from Gage Park. Later, in 1981, a TH&B caboose dating back to World War I was also acquired.
In 1981, the region's Economic Development Committee recommended Council change the name of Westfield Pioneer Village to Wentworth Heritage Village because a major portion of the village's collection represented not the pioneer era of 1792 - 1812, but rather the period of 1814 to 1910. Most of the heritage that Westfield presented was related to the United Empire Loyalists and other early settlers, such as farmers and artisans. The name "Pioneer Village" was somewhat misleading, and it was hoped that by changing it, the village would be able to rid itself of a "Walt Disney approach" to its heritage.
Despite its new name, the village's deficit continued to rise, and in 1983 discussions began about the possibility of the Hamilton Region Conservation Authority taking control of Westfield. By 1984, it was decided that the Wentworth Heritage Village was in serious need of approximately $1 million in repairs. If these repairs were not done, a great deal of the centre would be in ruin. Rumors circulated about funds being spent inappropriately. Records indicated that while the buildings were falling apart, a major portion of the money had been spent on acquiring new artifacts rather than on maintenance.
On September 3, 1984, Wentworth Heritage Village ceased operation. This shut-down took place 3 months before the planned closure for that season, with no guarantees of a re-opening in the following April.
With the centre still closed in 1985, discussions began on the possibility of re-locating the centre. The Christie Conservation area and Confederation Park were both considered viable alternatives. The idea was that a relocation to a better area might have attracted more visitors to the village. On May 12, 1986, the Regional Economic Development and Planning Committee recommended leaving the village in its current location and working instead on repairing the damage. Repair costs were estimated to be $1 million, whereas moving the entire site would have cost at least $1.7 million.
Further study was done on the repairs that the village would require. By February, 1987, it was estimated by the regional committee that $3 million of tax payer money would be required over the next five years to have the Wentworth Heritage Village suitable for re-opening. Later that year, the region decided to implement a plan which would call for the opening of the centre in 1990. The Regional Council approved spending $1.73 million over the next seven years to restore the heritage centre. Another $750,000 would be raised through donations and grants. It was calculated that $300, 000 would be required annually by the village to operate effectively and to cover the shortfall in revenues. Also, it was decided that the Wentworth Heritage Village's emphasis should be placed on education and wood-working.
Although it seemed like a good idea at the time, the wood-working theme was eventually dropped in favour of yet another idea. This time, plans were being drawn up to have the heritage centre converted into a $10 million historical amusement park. By this time, the Hamilton Regional Conservation Authority had taken control of the village and it was up to them to figure out what should be done with it. Flamborough Mayor Jim Robb found it "disgusting even to think about" giving up on the village. By November of 1989, the amusement park idea was dropped, and discussions now focused on what reasonable action could be taken to save the Wentworth Heritage Village.
Redevelopment of the site began in 1990, with a re-opening on November 30, 1990, occurring just in time for Christmas. The centre was now a "special events theme centre," known as Westfield Heritage Centre, with its first theme being entitled Christmas in the Country. Redevelopment was scheduled to continue over the next five years, but at least the site was safe for the public to visit.
By 1991, episodes of the Canadian television miniseries "Road to Avonlea" were being filmed at Westfield Heritage Centre and the sets and props were put on display, attracting a great number of visitors. Actors from the series have occasionally hosted autograph sessions at the site, drawing a great number of fans eager to meet them.
Civil war re-enactments are also played out at Westfield Heritage Centre. In fact, since the early 1990s, a different battle has been re-enacted each August. The re-enactors are people with a passion for accuracy and detail, learning how to march and carry their weapons with precision. The battles are fought before audiences who are later encouraged to speak with the actors to get a better understanding of what a civil war battle was really like. More than 50,000 Canadians fought in the civil war, and about 1,500 of these were Hamiltonians.
The Westfield Heritage Centre also holds a maple syrup program every spring, so visitors can explore the historic pioneer and modern maple syrup harvest.
Today, Westfield is a living, breathing recreation of the past, with volunteers dressed in historically appropriate costumes working as their ancestors did in the past. The centre is divided into the following buildings:
Albrecht Siep Boot and Harness Shop
As long as horses were the source of power for wagons, buggies and ploughs, the leather worker's skill as a harness maker was essential to the community. This shop was a two-man enterprise. The master craftsman and his apprentice made all of the leather boots and harness from hides originating from the farms in the community. This shop dates back to 1859 and is from Waterloo County.
Bake Oven
This functional bake oven was used during the summer months when it was too hot to bake indoors. Bread could be baked on heated bricks, once the coals from the blazing fire were removed. Up to 25 loaves of bread could (and still can) be baked on this oven at one time.
Bamberger House
Built c. 1806 by Samuel Bamberger, Bamberger House was moved from Hamilton's west-end in July 1993. It is Hamilton's oldest surviving building and is currently under restoration. When completed, the home will represent an 1850 upper-middle class homestead.
Blacksmith Shop
This is a fully-equipped building typical of the blacksmith shops found throughout Ontario. The hand-cut pine rafters and oak studding remind visitors of the rugged simplicity of pioneer craftsmen. In addition to shoeing horses or oxen, the versatile blacksmith forged and repaired farm tools, wagon parts and many other necessities. This building dates back to 1853 and is from Wellington County.
Cabinetmaker's Shop
This building has been reconstructed from a cabinetmaker's shop in Burlington. It highlights the tools and techniques of the trade.
Cathcart School No. 24
Dating back to 1845 in Brant County, this school was donated by Mr. Alex Szombati, Sr., of the hamlet of Cathcart. This typical one-room schoolhouse served as a community school until 1865 when it became a residence.
The few textbooks were supplemented by the large charts and maps that can still be seen hanging on the wall. Slates were used for daily work, conserving pens, ink and paper for the final product that might be viewed by the inspector on his next visit. The children helped to maintain their school by keeping the stove burning, filling the water bucket, sweeping, as well as cleaning slates and brushes. The cane hanging behind the teachers desk reminds us of an earlier, harsher view of discipline.
The construction of this building is notable for the exceptional wide logs (the largest is 27 inches) that were positioned by man and animal power. Doors and windows were cut out after the logs were in place.
D'Aubigny's Inn
This 1820 Brant County home was converted to an inn by William D'Aubigny in 1836-37. Many pioneer settlements grew up around a crossroads inn that also provided a village meeting place. The large, centrally located fireplace was typical of buildings of this period and the accommodations offered were very primitive. This inn once welcomed people at the outskirts of Brantford on the road to London.
Drug Store
This building combines the examining room of Dr. Beattie and a drug store (or Apothecary), originally located in the village of Kilbride, in the Regional Municipality of Halton, in 1879. The many items on the shelves, which were gifts of the White Drug store in Aylmer, Hyde's Drugstore in Woodstock and Scott's Drugstore in Norwich, were used in the practice of medicine in the 1890s. These items include a saw, a capsule-making device, and a suppository-maker. The stained glass window, showing a mortar and pestle was made for the first drug store in St. George in Brant County.
Since doctors were rare in the rural areas, farm families would have to be self-reliant in times of illness. Home remedies, many using native plants and learned from native peoples, were passed down from generation to generation. Medicinal herbs were also part of every home garden in urban areas.
Edmundson House
This house is a gift of the City of Brantford, where it was built in 1827.
Episcopal Methodist Church
This church was built in 1854 by Charles Mount in Mountsberg and restored in 1970. A tower and spire were added as was the pulpit furniture which was used by a Methodist church in Elgin County. Until 1870, women were seated to the right and men on the left.
Gate House
This building serves as an administration office where admission can be paid and public washrooms are available.
General Store
The general store (c. 1848, Elgin County) was the center of the social and economic life of the village. Farmers came here to read the newspapers and catch up on the local gossip. The children enjoyed shopping errands since the general store was likely their only source of sweets, such as the rock candy which is still on sale at the store.
George Potts' Spinning Wheel Shop
This shop originally stood on the outskirts of the town of Simcoe. Dating back to 1886, this is where George Potts would manufacture Doolittle's spinning machines and is thought to be the only complete spinning wheel shop preserved in Ontario.
Gillen House
This elegant house (c. 1862) was home to four generations of the Gillen family at 100 Wellington Street, Brantford. Dubbed "Old Hundred" by the Gillen grandchildren, the house bears this name on the letter slot, and is a gift of the city of Brantford. The home was built by Robert Gillen, a magistrate, who died the very year it was completed. His widow and four daughters, the youngest of whom was only three, were its first occupants. Their love of culture and music is reflected in the furnishings throughout: in the front parlour, a Mason and Risch Victrola and a music box that operates on the organ principle using reeds and air; in the back parlour, a zither (an instrument similar to an autoharp), a Fischer square grand piano, and an Excelsior pump organ.
Inn Driveshed
The driveshed sheltered horses and carriages while its owners rested at the Inn.
Ironwood Tea House
The Ironwood Tea House is a nostalgic building and serves as Westfield's restaurant during special events and as a lunch facility during school programs. Food services are provided by the Friends of Westfield and features a delightful menu.
Lockhart Farmstead
Building and maintaining a farmstead like this one, which typically has four buildings (house, smoke-house, outhouse and barn), took the labour of the entire family with little time for leisure. Many of the early settlers here, such as the Loyalists who were granted lands in British North America in return for their loyalty to the Crown during the American Revolution, had limited knowledge of farming and were even less prepared for clearing the wilderness. This building dates back to 1854 and was originally built in Oxford County.
Log Church
Believed to be the oldest log church in Ontario, this building was erected in 1824 as a school but used as a church at Kanyengeh on the Six Nations Reserve until 1854. This is a reminder that the Mohawk came to this area as Christian Loyalist settlers, important British allies in North America.
The church was constructed of hand cut logs which was assembled without nails and chinked with oakum. The pews were handmade and seated about forty people. In 1962, the church was rededicated at Westfield in a service conducted in Mohawk and English.
Log House
A few different log houses exist at Westfield Heritage Centre, moved from various locations and representing different periods in history.
Marr Shop
Currently under restoration, this small 1800's timber frame building was built in Ancaster.
McRobert Dry Goods Store
Originally from the village of Troy and dating back to 1850, this dry goods store has been furnished for the year 1899 with goods donated by individuals and stores in Wentworth County. The store took its name from storekeepers Brice McRoberts and his nephew Alexander McRoberts. The upstairs was originally used as a meeting place for community functions.
Misener House
This building was occupied by Conrad Misener in 1832 and is an excellent example of a timber frame house in Upper Canada. It was built in the village of Troy and donated to Westfield by the Misener family.
Potts Building
A replica of the original mud block house of the Potts family from Simcoe, c. 1840, it features a display of Victorian "heirlooms", a small portion of the over 30,000 artifacts at Westfield..
Sawmill
This sawmill, built circa 1870, turned settlers' logs into lumber. This allowed a greater range of building types, and provided an important export item.
Seth Fothergill's Print Shop
A great step forward in the development of any district was the establishment of a print shop, such as this one constructed in Goderich. Here a village's weekly newspaper was printed along with handbills announcing sales, auctions, sporting events, political meetings and even funerals. The fine collection of wooden types in the cases at the back of the shop are still ready for use on the 1863 Washington flat bed press, the gift of the Hurley Printing Co. of Brantford. The Hoedrum type press, also dating from the 1860's, was operated by steam and required at least three men to operate it.
Trading Post
Wentworth area trading posts have been located in what is now Crook's Hollow and at the site of Dundurn Castle in the 1700s. Trade with the native people remained an important part of Upper Canada's pioneer economy as late as the 1830's. Natives traded pelts, produce, basketware and leather beadwork for sugar, tobacco, gunpowder, blankets and other commodities. This c. 1830 two-storey building of tamarack logs from Leeds County, the former Dorman family residence and the gift of Mr. Hollis Dorman, shows many of the items stocked in a traditional trading post including traps, blankets, barrels, stoneware crocks and snow shoes.
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Hamilton has always been credited with having a vibrant arts scene. Toronto’s sky-high real estate prices are driving even more artist, musicians and chefs out of the city to set up shop in Hamilton. In addition to amazing art, music and food, Hamilton is home to the world’s largest collections of waterfalls, one of Canada’s most beloved football teams, amazing museums and heritage sites and so much more. We can’t wait for you to come and see for yourself why everyone is buzzing about “The Hammer”.
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HCA is currently seeking a part time Casual/Seasonal gate attendant for Westfield Heritage Village to work weekends from March to December, up to 8 hours per week including Sundays and public holidays when the Village is open to the public.
Job Summary:
Westfield Heritage Village is an over 150 hectare property within the City of Hamilton, midway between Cambridge and Hamilton near Rockton. The property is owned and managed by the Hamilton Conservation Authority. Westfield operates as a living history museum and provides special events for the general public, educational programs for students, unique heritage activities, weddings, business rentals and filming opportunities. On average 40, 000 visitors come to Westfield each year.
The Gate Attendant is the first point of contact for visitors to Westfield and strives to create an excellent customer service impression in their greeting and interaction. The attendant collects admission fees, sells vehicle passes and provides information about the Village, the day’s activities and about the Hamilton Conservation Authority in general.
Duties:
Act as cashier at the entrance gate accepting payment for entry, annual membership pass sales, gift cards and other ticketed events.
Greet and respond to visitor’s needs and provide direction/advice. Give excellent customer service.
Operate a cash register, count floats, print daily cash reports, process credit card and interact purchases. The gate attendant will be required to set-up and maintain their cashier station.
To work together with all staff and volunteers and be engaged in activities related to revenue generation.
Contribute to general housekeeping duties. Carry out other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Previous cashier/gate experience related work with the public is an asset, but additional training will be provided.
Applicants must possess good communication and interpersonal skills. A friendly and pleasant personality is essential.
Accuracy and attention to detail for cash
Able to work alone or with a partner
Working Conditions:
This position will be based at Westfield Heritage Village reporting to the Visitor Services Coordinator. There is no public transportation to this location. Most of the work will be from a heated admission kiosk, but some of the work may be outside in a variety of weather and temperature conditions. This position involves working Sundays and holidays between 6-8 hours a week.
Rate of Pay:
This is a casual position based on minimum wage. There is an opportunity to buy a discounted annual membership pass to the Hamilton Conservation Authority and to receive discounted admissions to other area attractions. Westfield is largely staffed by over 400 volunteers who help to provide a fun, energetic and unique working environment.
Application Process:
If you are interested, please send your cover letter and resume in PDF or MS Word format via email by 4pm Friday February 12, 2016 to:
Hamilton Conservation Authority
Attn: Christina Jager, Visitor Services Coordinator
Westfield Heritage Village
Email: cjager@conservationhamilton.ca (please specify job title in subject line)
www.conservationhamilton.ca
Although we appreciate the interest of all applicants, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Accessibility accommodations are available for all parts of the recruitment process; applicants are asked to inform Human Resources for any disability required accommodations in advance.
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After the last year and a half stuck inside, many of us are ready to get out and find new adventures. With vaccines rolling out and businesses opening back up, we’re all finding new things to love about the places we live. And if you’re in the Hamilton, Ontario, area, you may be looking for some exciting new things to try this summer and fall.
No matter what time of year it is, Hamilton, Ontario has some fantastic attractions to offer. Read on to discover some of the best things to do in Hamilton year-round. After the last year and a half stuck inside, many of us are ready to get out and find new adventures. With vaccines rolling out and businesses opening back up, we’re all finding new things to love about the places we live. And if you’re in the Hamilton, Ontario, area, you may be looking for some exciting new things to try this summer and fall.
No matter what time of year it is, Hamilton, Ontario has some fantastic attractions to offer. Read on to discover some of the best things to do in Hamilton year-round.
Winters in Canada are harsh, and it can seem like there may not be much to do during this time. However, there is a lot to do in Hamilton during the colder months! Read on to discover just a couple of the amazing opportunities for fun in the winter.
Check Out the Waterfalls
One of the most amazing features of Hamilton, Ontario is its waterfalls. The city is home to more than 100 waterfalls thanks to its location along the Niagara Escarpment. And you might be surprised to learn that one of the best times to visit these waterfalls is during the winter.
Tew Falls and Felker’s Falls are two of Hamilton’s most beautiful waterfalls, with Felker’s Falls freezing over in the winter. If you have training in ice climbing, you can also elect to climb Tiffany Falls when they’re frozen during the colder months. Little Davis Falls and Albion Falls are also popular in the wintertime.
Go for a Walk
Winter might not seem like the best time to go for a walk, but getting out of the house can help to reduce some of the effects of seasonal affective disorder. There are also some beautiful sights to see around Hamilton, especially in the evenings. With the sun setting so much earlier, you can catch some beautiful sunsets while you’re out on your walk.
Take a walk through Waterdown Memorial Park, enjoying some of the many paths the park has to offer. You can also go snowshoeing at Dundas Valley Conservation Area, which has a number of trails for you to choose from. Or take in some lake views along the Great Lakes Waterfront Trail, which overlooks Lake Ontario.
Once the weather thaws out a little, you may be eager to get out of the house. Hamilton offers some incredible attractions during the springtime too!
Visit the Botanical Gardens
The Royal Botanical Gardens are one of the most amazing springtime things to do in Hamilton. The gardens span more than 2,400 acres and are home to more than 1,000 different species of plants. Most of the plants in the gardens are native, so you’ll have amazing opportunities to see some gorgeous local flora.
There are a few different areas to visit in the Royal Botanical Gardens, beginning with Hendrie Park, the largest cultivated garden in the gardens. Hendrie Park includes some amazing rose gardens, as well as the Morrison Woodland Garden. Keep an eye out for the rare bashful bulrush, endangered red mulberry tree, and trilliums, the official flower of Ontario.
When summer vacation rolls around, you may want to take the family on some new adventures! Hamilton has some amazing summer attractions to keep the whole family entertained.
Explore a Castle
How would you like to spend a summer afternoon exploring a real castle? Dundurn Castle was built in 1835 and has more than 1,700 square meters of living space spread across 40 rooms. It was built by Sir Allan MacNab, who became prime minister of Canada nine years after its completion. The entrance features four huge pillars that are a hallmark of the home’s stunning Neoclassical style.
The city of Hamilton purchased Dundurn Castle around 1900 and restored it to look just as it did in its prime. If you visit today, you can see all of the original furnishings and décor, as well as stunningly maintained grounds. The castle features a two-acre kitchen garden, an old coach house, and costumed tour guides who can share stories from the castle’s nearly two-century history.
Enjoy an Art Gallery
If you’re looking for more things to do in Hamilton indoors, why not check out Hamilton’s Art Gallery? The Art Gallery of Hamilton was established more than a century ago, but it moved to its current location on King Street West in the late 1970s. The museum has more than 7,000 square meters of gallery space, so you’ll have plenty to explore.
The Art Gallery has a vast permanent collection, featuring more than 10,000 pieces that are on rotation at the museum. They also bring in different exhibits to give guests a chance to experience the best of Canadian art. General admission is free, and the gallery features a gift shop, a café, and guided tours.
When the fall rolls around, many of us are dying to get outdoors and enjoy the last beautiful weather before winter sets in. There are plenty of fun things to do in Hamilton to make your fall as memorable as possible.
Visit a Heritage Village
As temperatures drop and that crisp fall air sets in, there’s no place better to be than the Westfield Heritage Village. This community is less than half an hour from Hamilton and consists of thirty-five historic buildings spread out on an 840-acre site. This town has been lovingly reconstructed to appear just as it did in the 19th century.
Westfield Heritage Village provides a look into the lives of Canadians living in the 1800s and early 1900s. You can purchase a traditional candle at the general store, visit a maple syrup shack, or check out some of the regular skill demonstrations. You can also explore the meadows and woods of the surrounding areas to hear that tantalizing crunch of leaves under your feet.
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Apply for the DAA in Creative Writing by submitting:
The application, including:
A short essay about your reading and writing
A sample of your creative writing (fiction, poetry and/or creative nonfiction) — 10 typed pages
A letter of recommendation from someone who knows you as a student and/or as a writer
Applications for the Distinguished Artist Awards in Creative Writing must be received by midnight, February 18, 2024. Scholarship recipients will be notified in March 2024.
To keep this scholarship, you’ll need to maintain a 2.6 GPA at Hope and declare a creative writing major or minor.
To apply for a Distinguished Artist Award in Creative Writing, you’ll also need to submit a completed application for admission to Hope College.
Scholarship Coordinator
Michelle VanDenend
616.395.7620
english@hope.edu
For more information, please visit the Department of English website.
Dance
To apply for the DAA in Dance, you will need to submit the application, including:
Head shot (hair in bun)
A letter of recommendation from a current dance instructor
A one-page essay answering the question: “What is it about the dance program at Hope that interests and excites you?”
For more information, please visit the Department of Dance website.
Applications and video auditions for the Distinguished Artist Award in Dance must be received by midnight, February 18, 2024. Scholarship recipients will be notified in March 2024.
To keep this scholarship, you’ll need to maintain a 2.6 GPA at Hope.
To apply for a Distinguished Artist Award in Dance, you’ll also need to submit a completed application for admission to Hope College.
Scholarship Coordinator
Larissa Brooks
616.395.7700
dance@hope.edu
For more information, please visit the Department of Dance website.
Music
Apply for the DAA in music by completing the application and attending an audition date. You may audition at any of the below dates, but the application must be submitted no later than February 11, 2024 at 11:59 p.m.
Auditions for the Distinguished Artist Awards in Music will be held on the below dates:
Monday, January 15, 2024 (noon–5 p.m.)
Friday, February 16, 2024 (noon–5 p.m.)
Saturday, February 17, 2024 (8 a.m.–5 p.m.)
To keep this scholarship, you’ll need to maintain a 2.6 GPA at Hope and be involved with the Department of Music while a student at Hope.
To apply for a Distinguished Artist Award in Music, you’ll also need to submit a completed application for admission to Hope College.
Scholarship Coordinator
Julie Carns
616.395.7650
music@hope.edu
For more information, please visit the Department of Music website.
Theatre
Apply for the DAA in theatre by completing the application.
The deadline for submitting the application and resume is February 18, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. for our Theatre Audition Day on February 23. Scholarship recipients will be notified in March 2024.
To keep this scholarship, you’ll need to maintain a 2.6 GPA at Hope and major or minor in theatre.
To be awarded a Distinguished Artist Award in Theatre, you’ll also need to submit a completed application for admission to Hope College.
Scholarship Coordinator
Prof. Michelle Bombe
616.395.7600
bombe@hope.edu
For more information, please visit the Department of Theatre website.
Visual Arts
You can apply for the DAA in the Visual Arts by submitting the application, including your portfolio of digital slides/images.
Applications for the Distinguished Artist Award in Visual Arts are due February 18, 2024 by 11:59 p.m. Scholarship recipients will be notified in March 2024.
To keep this scholarship, you’ll need to maintain a 2.6 GPA and declare a major or minor in an Art & Art History Department program.
To apply for a Distinguished Artist Award in the Visual Arts, you’ll also need to submit a completed application for admission to Hope College.
Scholarship Coordinator
Nicole Wetzel
616.395.7500
art@hope.edu
For more information, please visit the Department of Art & Art History website.
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Union County’s “Four Centuries in a Weekend: A Journey Through Time” countywide history event is back this year on Saturday, Oct. 15 and Sunday, Oct. 16 from noon to 5 p.m. each day. Each day is packed with special exhibits and activities at more than 30 house museums and historic sites in Union County, all open to the public free of charge.
The annual event is sponsored by the Union County Board of County Commissioners and coordinated by the Union County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs, in collaboration with staff and volunteers at the sites.
“Every year brings new insights that enrich our knowledge of the past, that inform our experience of the present, and that enable us to see more clearly into the future of our community,” said Commissioner Chair Rebecca L. Williams. “We encourage everyone to come and enjoy the activities and exhibits, and walk in the footsteps of those who lived here through the centuries.”
Visitors will be able to stop by a restored mansion and church, Revolutionary War burial grounds, the county’s oldest railroad station, quaint house museums, special exhibitions, and more.
Each site will provide visitors with a free Union County Passport to stamp. Visitors can also pick up free Union County History trading cards at many of the sites.
For more details, including updates and late-breaking schedule changes, visit ucnj.org/4c or contact the individual site.
The featured sites with activities this year include:
Berkeley Heights
Deserted Village of Feltville / Glenside Park
1 Cataract Hollow Rd., Berkeley Heights, 908-527-4900, http://www.ucnj.org/dv
Apple cider pressing
Hayrides
Walking tour led by an archaeologist (departs 2:00 pm from Masker’s Barn on Sat. and Sun.); learn about excavations that revealed the social history of certain significant periods here, through examination of physical evidence
Activities for children: old-fashioned children’s games; quill and ink pen writing
Campfire with marshmallow toasting
Learn about this village’s history in multiple ways: interpretive panels, audio tour, museum displays, booklet for a self-guided tour, or an armchair tour presented by “David Felt”
Meet costumed characters from Feltville history, including Revolutionary War soldier John Willcocks, and David Felt, who owned and developed the mill town here
View recently completed restoration work on House 7
Most buildings and activities in the village are wheelchair-accessible via visitors’ own vehicle or golf cart, provided on site. Historic buildings and activities are spread out over a large area.
Parking available in three areas on site. Attendants will direct you as you turn onto Cataract Hollow Rd. Inform attendant of accommodations needed for people with disabilities.
Clark
Dr. William Robinson Plantation Museum, 593 Madison Hill Rd., Clark, 732-340-1571, www.DrRobinsonMuseum.org
Saturday: open 11 am–4 pm and 8–10 pm *
Sunday: open 11 am – 3 pm
Tours this 3-floor museum, a circa-1690 building
Interactive displays outdoors and indoors
Functioning 1919 Model T on display
Living History program about World War II armed forces, from multiple sides and theaters of the war; learn about civilian efforts that supported troops, including a USO show. Displays include uniforms, weapons, and a signal corps tent with working equipment (Saturday evening tour: Experience the World War II encampment at night).
Gift shop
Herb garden featuring plants considered medicinal
1st floor of building is wheelchair-accessible. Video shown on 1st floor is a virtual tour of basement and attic levels.
Cranford
Crane-Phillips House Museum, 124 North Union Ave., Cranford, 908-276-0082, www.cranfordhistoricalsociety.org
Tour this Civil War-era cottage home
“Celebrating Cranford’s Finest” exhibit commemorates the 125th anniversary of Cranford Police Dept. and the 135th anniversary of the Fire Dept. — with displays of all police officers and chiefs since 1870, beginning with Joshua Bryant; and displays about the Fire Dept. through the years. Police officers and firefighters will greet visitors.
Museum building is wheelchair-accessible, except the 2nd floor, which can be seen by a video shown on the 1st floor.
Park in the Police Dept. lot (behind museum) or the nearby municipal lot.
Cranford
William Miller Sperry Observatory, Union College, 1033 Springfield Ave., Cranford, 908-709-7000, www.asterism.org
Tours of Sperry Observatory will be led by members of Amateur Astronomy Inc., followed by Q&A sessions — two of the largest telescopes in the eastern United States are located here
Observatory domes will be open, weather permitting, however telescopes are not used during daylight
Pick up astronomy and science-related books, magazines and posters — gently used and donated for this event
Observatory classroom is wheelchair-accessible.
Sperry Observatory is located towards the back of the Union College campus, between Springfield Ave. and Gallows Hill Rd. Ample parking is available in the large lots on the college campus, including spaces near the Observatory.
Elizabeth
Boxwood Hall State Historic Site, 1073 E. Jersey St., Elizabeth, 908-282-7617, https://nj.gov/dep/parksandforests/historic/boxwoodhall.html
Guided tours of this 18th-century residence describe the events and people connected with this site, including George Washington — who dined here on the day he was inaugurated as our first President
Exhibit about local history
First floor is wheelchair-accessible via the back entrance.
Parking lot behind building (via driveway between Boxwood Hall and Efficiency Inn).
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Public Library, 11 S Broad St., Elizabeth, 908-354-6060, www.elizpl.org
Open Saturday only
Closed Sunday
Historic Elizabethtown Scavenger Hunt hosted by the Library’s Local History & Special Collections Dept. — pick up the Scavenger Hunt map/brochure on site; for more information, contact the Dept. at 908-354-6060 x7220, or email afernandez@elizpl.org
Navesink String Quartet performance at 2 pm (indoors)
Library building and restrooms are fully ADA-compliant. For the Scavenger Hunt, see the brochure to contact sites before visiting to inquire about accessibility.
Free parking on site while using the Library only. For the Scavenger Hunt, use either Bollwage Parking Garage at 37 Caldwell Place or Jefferson Ave. Parking Garage at 28-56 Jefferson Ave. (at corner of Dickinson).
Elizabeth
Nathaniel Bonnell Homestead & Belcher-Ogden Mansion, 1046 East Jersey St., Elizabeth, 908-581-7555
• Exterior tour about “the corner that history made”
• Picnic tables available for litter-free carry-in lunch in Belcher-Ogden back yard
Building is wheelchair accessible.
Parking lot on site.
Elizabeth
Siloam Hope First Presbyterian Church & Snyder Academy, 42 Broad St., Elizabeth, 908-353-2131
Guided tours of First Presbyterian Church, the oldest English-speaking congregation in New Jersey (currently Siloam Hope First Presbyterian Church) and Snyder Academy, where Alexander Hamilton once attended school
Self-guided tour of the restored Revolutionary-era cemetery and burial grounds, where 313+ free and enslaved African people are buried in unmarked graves
History presentation
Children’s games from the Revolutionary War period
Arts and crafts for children and adults
Historical museum at Snyder Academy features Revolutionary War artifacts, tours and audio-visual presentations about the history of this site
Church building is wheelchair-accessible via ramp at the entrance. Snyder Academy is wheelchair-accessible by elevator located on the Caldwell Ave. side (north side) of the building.
Convenient parking available at the parking garage on Caldwell Place, across from Snyder Academy.
Fanwood
Historic Fanwood Train Station Museum, 230 North Ave., Fanwood, 908-322-8236, www.fanwoodnj.org
Museum features local history, with a focus on rail service, set in the historic Fanwood Train Station building
Hillside
Evergreen Cemetery, 1137 North Broad St., Hillside, 908-352-7940
Pick up a tour booklet at Woodruff House for a self-guided tour of this historic cemetery, replete with many elaborate funerary monuments
Hillside
Woodruff House, Eaton Store Museum & Phil Rizzuto All Sports Exhibit, 111 Conant St., Hillside, 908-353-8828, www.woodruffhouse.org
Saturday: open 10 am – 5 pm
Sunday: open 12 – 4 pm
Tours of Woodruff House (dating to 1735) and Eaton Store (dating to 1900) and their period furnishings:
In homage to the Woodruff apple orchards, Mini Apple Festival includes the sale of fresh apples, cider, apple turnovers, apple-cider donuts and hot dogs
Early 1900s antique car on display
Visit the barn to see the Phil Rizzuto All Sports Exhibit of memorabilia from local baseball legend Phil Rizzuto
Pick up a brochure with map to take a self-guided tour of nearby historic Evergreen Cemetery
Street parking available.
Kenilworth
Oswald J. Nitschke House, 49 South 21 St., Kenilworth, 908-276-9090, www.kenilworthhistoricalsociety.org
Guided tours of this circa-1880 authentically furnished home and its “teaching” gardens of heirloom flowers, vegetables and herbs
Multicultural garden-to-table demonstration
Textile crafting demonstration
Interactive “living history” program portrays the everyday life of a late 19th-/early 20th-century immigrant in a developing suburb
New exhibit: “New Orange/Kenilworth — A Melting Pot of Many Cultures”
Light refreshments
Grounds and building are wheelchair-accessible; elevator on site.
Free parking in front of building, on the street and in municipal lot across the street.
Mountainside
Deacon Andrew Hetfield House, Constitution Plaza, Watchung Ave., Mountainside, 908-789-9420, www.mountainsidehistory.org/contact-us
Tours of this house, which dates to circa 1760 and was expanded and altered over the years
Special exhibits
John Sileo of the Tri-State Historical Education Simulations will discuss a Revolutionary War battle that was fought nearby, with discussion augmented by a miniature diorama showing the battle’s actions with hundreds of hand-painted soldiers
Browse and shop at the restored Levi Cory House (circa 1818) next door
Main house is not wheelchair-accessible.
Parking lot on site.
New Providence
Salt Box Museum, 1350 Springfield Ave., New Providence, 908-665-1034, www.newprovidencehistorical.com
Saturday & Sunday:
19th-century tools exhibited outside include a restored hay wagon, laundry implements including a hand-crank ringer, foot-powered tool-sharpening wheel, and ice plow
Tour the interior of this restored house, furnished to represent a typical mid-1800s New Jersey farmhouse, and displaying fascinating artifacts — some dating to before the American Revolution
Saturday only:
Guided Cemetery Tour (free) at New Providence Presbyterian Church, across from Salt Box at 1307 Springfield Ave., departing 1 pm and 2 pm (registration required): Learn the history of this cemetery and visit the graves of founding families and Revolutionary War soldiers on this guided 45-minute tour. Limit 20 per tour. To register and request confirmation, email NPcemeterytours@gmail.com, with name, preferred time and number of people. Meet 10 minutes before start time on the sidewalk by church parking lot. Sturdy shoes recommended, due to uneven ground.
Explore the Mason Room Archives of New Providence Historical Society: View local maps, photos, newspapers, personal journals and records in the Mason Room, located at the rear of New Providence Memorial Library, 377 Elkwood Ave., New Providence.
Park on the street for Salt Box; in church lot for Presbyterian Church cemetery tour; or in the Library lot for visiting the Mason Room.
Plainfield
Drake House Museum & Historical Society of Plainfield, 602 West Front St., Plainfield, 908-755-5831, www.drakehouseplainfieldnj.org
Interior tours on rotating basis (limit 4 people per tour)
Drake House Film Festival: a series of short videos shown on an ongoing basis (weather permitting, videos may be shown outdoors); subjects include artifacts, dance, and history; some feature drone footage.
Information about the search for the Blue Hills Militia Post
Masks required indoors and will be available on site.
Grounds and 1st floor of building are wheelchair-accessible.
Parking lot on site; enter lot at traffic light.
Saturday only: 11 am – 3 pm
Two exhibits on view nearby at Plainfield Public Library, 800 Park Ave.:
• “A Photographic Journey through Union County History,” photographs by Nancy Ori, on view in the Anne Louise Davis Room
• “Beef, Iron and Wine: Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Pharmacy & Medicine in Plainfield,” an exhibit of bottles from the Historical Society of Plainfield’s collection, on view in the main lobby
Plainfield -- duCret School of Art
1030 Central Ave., Plainfield
908-757-7171
www.ducret.edu
Open Saturday only
Closed Sunday
• Tours of this 1896 building, formerly the George Strong residence
• Exhibit of artworks from the school’s permanent collection
Parking lot on site.
Plainfield
Plainfield Quaker Meeting House, 225 Watchung Ave., Plainfield, 908-757-5736, www.plainfieldquakers.org
Open Saturday only
Closed Sunday
Tour this historic meetinghouse, built in 1788
Building is wheelchair-accessible. Accessible parking spaces on site.
Park in lot on site or on street (meetinghouse is across from Plainfield train station).
Rahway
African American History & Heritage Learning Center, 261 Central Ave., Rahway, 732-382-0541, www.ebenezeramechurch.com
Open Saturday only
Closed Sunday
Guided tours of this site, formerly an 1800s one-room schoolhouse
Interactive programs for children and parents/guardians
Pop-up bookstore
Performances and art exhibitions related to the city of Rahway, African-American culture and the world
Storytelling and oral histories
Community reading event
Food trucks
Free giveaways
Park in the church lot at 253 Central Ave. or on local streets nearby.
Rahway
Merchants & Drovers Tavern Museum, 1632 St. George Ave., Rahway (corner of Westfield Ave.), 732-381-0441, www.merchantsanddrovers.org
Tours of this museum and restored historic building -- once a tavern and stagecoach stop
Demonstration of authentic hearth cooking
Tours of historic Rahway Cemetery, burial site of Abraham Clark, a signer of the Declaration of Independence; and of Ambo, an enslaved woman
Museum building and bathroom are wheelchair-accessible.
Parking available on grounds.
Rahway
Union County Performing Arts Center, 1601 Irving St., Rahway, 732-499-8226, www.ucpac.org
Take a guided tour of this 1928 venue led by movie/theater historian and author Irv Hyatt, to include: the history of this restored theater; back stage; demonstration of the historic Wurlitzer organ with its sound effects and various connected instruments (such as drums, cymbals, xylophone); and a Projectionist with 40 years’ experience will explain the projection and movie system
Building is wheelchair-accessible. Accessible parking spaces at rear of building.
Parking available on street or behind the theatre. Or use spacious parking lot nearby at Hamilton Theater on Hamilton St.
Roselle
Abraham Clark House, 101 W. 9th Ave., Roselle, 732-221-7211
Exhibits and artifacts focus on the life of Abraham Clark and the history of Roselle
Ample street parking available.
Roselle Park
Roselle Park Historical Society & Museum, 9 W. Grant Ave., Roselle Park
Exhibit exploring the history of Roselle Park — the founding families, mayors and Borough Councils through the years; with timelines about the railroads that helped develop this borough
Ground-level building entrance is wheelchair-accessible (no steps).
Free street parking available nearby, and metered parking across the street.
Scotch Plains
Frazee House, 1451 Raritan Rd., Scotch Plains, www.frazeehouse.org
Saturday only:
Harvest Festival, featuring live music, food trucks, sale of pumpkins
Children’s activities include: games, pony rides, petting zoo, pumpkin tossing and pumpkin patch
Representatives will give external tours of the house restoration and describe this location’s significance on the Battle of Short Hills Historic Trail
Video demonstration
Scotch Plains
Osborn Cannonball House Museum, 1840 Front St., Scotch Plains, Weekends: 908-757-1885, www.historicalsocietyspfnj.org
Tour this Colonial-era house and learn about the family who lived here during the American Revolution, and what life was like for the 13 Osborn children — two of whom fought in the war
Feature program “The 18th-Century Child at Work & Play” — Children worked hard in the 1700s, but also found time to play. Explore the collection of hands-on 18th-century toys. Play a game of quoits and 9-pin bowling.
Make a colonial hat, then wear it for a photo-op as you pose with colonial children cut-outs
Park in the Municipal lot behind town hall or on street.
Scotch Plains
Shady Rest Country Club, 820 Jerusalem Rd., Scotch Plains, 908-490-1577, www.preserveshadyrest.org
Tours this historic site, which was the first black-owned country club in the United States (ongoing tours with presentations)
Documentary film “A Place for Us,” about the history of the Black-owned Shady Rest and about John Shippen, the first African-American professional golfer to play in the US Open
The John Shippen Museum
Arts and crafts for children
FREE mini-golf
Mini-golf putting contest — with prizes
Light refreshments
Saturday only:
Presentation about the history of horses and horseback-riding at The Shady Rest — plus a horse on site, and horseback-riding opportunities from 2 to 4 pm
Sunday only:
Live jazz music performance in the Grand Ballroom by Andrew Wagner
Thurman and Ruby Simmons will be on hand to discuss the history of John Shippen in the John Shippen Museum
Building is wheelchair-accessible. Accessible parking spaces on site.
Parking lot on site.
Springfield
Cannon Ball House/Hutchings Homestead, 126 Morris Ave., Springfield, 973-912-4464, www.springfieldhistoricalsociety.webs.com
Self-guided tour of the first floor of this Colonial home that survived the Revolutionary War, featuring 18th-century artifacts in the library, parlor, dining room and colonial kitchen
Docents from the Springfield Historical Society will answer questions
Exhibit features the century-old, antique wedding gown of a prominent Springfield bride
Battle of Springfield booklets, maps and 225th Anniversary memorabilia available for sale.
Saturday only:
• Members of the Brigade of the Revolution will tell stories of life as a colonial-era soldier in the days leading to the 1780 Battle of Springfield during the Revolutionary War
Entrance via rear door is just one step up, but building is not wheelchair-accessible by ramp.
Limited on-site parking; enter building via rear door.
Summit
Carter House, 90 Butler Parkway, Summit, 908-277-1747, www.summitnjhistory.org or www.summithistoricalsociety.org
Informal tours of the circa-1741 Carter House
Museum offers something for history lovers of all ages: period furniture and decorative items; a painting by the Hudson River School’s Worthington Whittredge; Colonia-era kitchen complete with hearth; a Franklin stove; and a library of local history
Archives include photos, building histories, genealogy records, thousands of local obituaries, maps, postcards and more
Retail shop offers handmade items and gifts with local themes
Garage houses an antique fire truck and serves as a mini museum for the Summit Fire Dept.
Research room and entire archives are wheelchair-accessible via ramp from gravel parking lot; remainder of the museum is one step up.
Ample free parking on the street, or park in the gravel lot on site.
Summit
Reeves-Reed Arboretum, 165 Hobart Ave., Summit, 908-273-8787, www.reeves-reedarboretum.org
Saturday only: open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Closed Sunday
Historic public garden, education resource center, and living history museum featuring Wisner House and other outbuildings on 13.5 acres of pastoral lawns, woodland trails, a glacial bowl and historic gardens
Free guided horticulture and history tours depart at 10:30 am and 1:30 pm from the Visitor’s Center
History exhibit featuring photographs and artifacts from the Wisner, Reeves and Reed families
Buildings include galleries, classroom/workshop space in the historic carriage house, and a library housing a collection of historic documents, photos and books
Beacon Signal Fire #10, a replica of the original Revolutionary War beacon, was recently installed
Explore the Wildflower Trail, and learn about the history of the historic daffodils here
Buildings are wheelchair-accessible. Gardens and grounds are wheelchair-accessible in some areas. Map and Guide available at Visitors Center provides details.
Park on site, across the street or in surrounding residential area (observe parking regulations).
Summit
Twin Maples, 214 Springfield Ave., Summit, 908-273-0301, www.twinmaplessummit.org
Guided tours of this grand Colonial Revival estate built in 1908, with a facade resembling the White House, a lavish entry hall, a ballroom, and a ladies’ secret bath tucked beneath the staircase
Parking lot on site.
Summit
Wallace Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church, 138-142 Broad St., Summit
Tour of the church buildings and grounds, focusing on Rev. Dr. Florence S. Randolph, the activist and spiritual leader who advocated for justice, equality and equity, civil rights, and women’s suffrage
Building is wheelchair accessible.
Parking lot at rear of church. Street parking also available.
Union Township
Caldwell Parsonage, 909 Caldwell Ave,. Union, 908-687-7977, www.unionhistory.org or www.uniontwphistoricalsociety.webs.com
Tours of this historic parsonage site led by student docents from Union schools
Appearance by Rev. James Caldwell, portrayed by Meridoc Burkhardt
New exhibit: “Hannah’s At-home Dress,” created by Gail Alterman, Costume consultant, Assistant to the FIT Textile Conservator
New exhibit: “Local Heroes of the Revolution” created by Michael Yesenko, historian and author
Family/children’s activities include: create a tricorn hat and/or a colonial-style bonnet; make “church” dolls; play colonial and native-American games
Shop the vintage book sale
Building is wheelchair accessible. On-street parking and municipal lot one block away.
Union Township
Connecticut Farms Church, 888 Stuyvesant Ave., Union, 908-688-3164, www.ctfarms.org
Visit this historic church and its cemetery — congregation dates to 1730, and the original church building was burned down by the British in 1780
Union Township
Liberty Hall, 1003 Morris Ave., Union, 908-527-0400, www.kean.edu
Tour the historic Firehouse Museum, with Union Township Fire Dept. on hand
Children’s activities
Visitor Center offers a gift shop
The main house will not be open, due to a special event.
Visitor Center and Firehouse Museum are fully wheelchair-accessible.
On-site parking available.
Union Township
Congressman Donald M. Payne Vauxhall Meeting Center, 333 Russell St., Vauxhall (Union), 908-688-2797, mvhs1860@yahoo.com
Displays and historical information highlight the Vauxhall section of the Township of Union; presented by the Vauxhall Historical Society
Building is wheelchair accessible and fully ADA-compliant.
Parking lot is across the street from Jefferson School, which also has a parking lot.
Westfield
Miller-Cory House Museum, 614 Mountain Ave., Westfield, 908-232-1776, www.millercoryhouse.com
Informal docent-led tours of this fully furnished circa-1740 farmhouse
Celebrating its 50th anniversary, this site will showcase 18th-century cuisine with a demonstration of authentic colonial-era open-hearth cooking, using period recipes and techniques
Herb and kitchen gardens
Park in lot or on surrounding side-streets.
Westfield
Reeve History & Cultural Resource Center, 314 Mountain Ave., Westfield, 908-654-1794, www.westfieldhistoricalsociety.org
Tour this meticulously decorated and maintained circa-1875 Italianate Victorian-era residence
Special exhibit about the Westfield origins of Children’s Specialized Hospital
Self-guided walking tour of the grounds includes gardens, an arboretum, and a “fairy house” hunt
Saturday only:
Annual Westfield Historical Society AppleFest celebration held outdoors, with music and children’s games
Many activities are outdoors and wheelchair-accessible, however the building interior is not wheelchair-accessible. Interior can be seen online via a virtual tour.
Street parking available.
Four Centuries in a Weekend is funded in part by a grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a Division of Cultural Affairs in the Department of State.
The Union County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs is a division of the Union County Department of Parks and Recreation. For information about all Cultural and Heritage programs, including grant opportunities, visit ucnj.org/cultural.
For information about all programs and activities in Union County parks, visit ucnj.org/parks or call 908-527-4900.
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Battlefield House Museum & Park
When you come to visit us at Battlefield House Museum in Stoney Creek, you will find living history. Experience life in the early nineteenth century, as our museum staff, dressed in period clothing, demonstrate the lifestyle of the Gage Family.
77 King St. West, Stoney Creek, ON
Fieldcote Memorial Park & Museum
Fieldcote is a cultural heritage centre with an emphasis on the collection, preservation and exhibition of local history, the promotion of fine arts and the celebration of natural heritage through beautiful landscaped gardens and walking trails
64 Sulphur Springs Rd, Hamilton ON L9G 1L8, Ancaster, ON
Devil's Punchbowl
The Devil’s Punch Bowl is one of the Niagara Escarpment’s most amazing sights, created at the end of the last ice age by huge melt-water rivers that plunged over the Stoney Creek Escarpment, thus carving the Punch Bowl and gorge.
Ridge Road, Stoney Creek, ON
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We’re at Westfield Heritage Village in Rockton, Ontario (about an hour west of Toronto) engaging with some living history… and getting our run on. The quaint heritage village, open from April to October each year, allows leashed dogs to roam about and admittedly Victor skirts this rule a few times. But we practically have the place to ourselves.
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Picture a clear fall day with leaves changing colour, 18th and 19th century buildings lining a winding pathway and my little black dog, Victor, racing circles around it all.
We’re at Westfield Heritage Village in Rockton, Ontario (about an hour west of Toronto) engaging with some living history… and getting our run on.
The quaint heritage village, open from April to October each year, allows leashed dogs to roam about and admittedly Victor skirts this rule a few times. But we practically have the place to ourselves.
We’re here the last day the Hamilton Conservation Authority site is open for the season. We’ve come to trot among the pumpkins lining the wooded walking trails surrounding the village and breath in the strong scent of history.
That’s right: Victor loves the smell of old stuff and three centuries is really old. (Check out his old fort visit here)
Opened in 1964, This living history museum is about bringing early Canadian culture alive. It’s a collection of 35 historical buildings most restored to specific decades ranging from 1775 to 1925, moved here from locations around Southern Ontario and staffed with costumed interpreters.
Centuries reside side-by-side. A colour-coded map directs visitors from the living conditions in the late 18th century to the early 20th. For instance, the Queen’s Rangers’ Cabin, built in 1792, was originally located in Dundas and is one of the oldest cabins in Ontario.
The Mountsberg Church was built in 1854 and move here from yes, Mountsberg and yes, you can actually rent it for weddings.
Other buildings, like the Victorian-style Hardware Store and Gillen House Greenhouse, are replicas.
Victor’s favourite – because he can run up the stairs to the platform – is the 1896 Jerseyville Railway Station that once saw trains travelling between Hamilton and Brantford pass by its doors. Today, Victor’s feeling the PEI vibe, because this station became a set featured in the Anne of Green Gables movie (Amazon affiliate) and the television series Anne of Avonlea.
Ultimately, it’s the intense smells of autumn’s rotting leaves on the trails and history’s aging barn board that keeps Victor thrilled. And he’s surprisingly happy, though I think the attention paid to accurate historic restoration is lost on him.
TRAVEL GUIDE: Westfield Heritage Village, 1049 Kirkwall Road, Rockton, Ontario, Canada is open daily April to October, but the buildings are only open on weekends and holidays, 12:30 to 4:00 pm. Dogs (leashed) are welcome and bring your own picnic. Admission is $14 per adult on weekends, $4 weekdays and dogs are free.
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About This Area
Westfield Heritage Village Conservation Area is both a living history museum and a conservation area. It boasts a stunning collection of over 35 historical buildings that have been restored to capture the true charm and spirit of early Canadian culture. The buildings are nestled against the backdrop of 204 hectares of conservation land that features woodlands, meadows and nearly 8 kilometres of walking trails. Westfield offers various events and education programs throughout the year, and is the ideal setting for weddings.
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March 4, 11, 18, & 25 Good Friday March 30 Wednesday, March 14, Thursday, March 15 of March Break 10:00 – 4:00 pm Westfield Heritage Village 1049 Kirkwall Road, Rockton, ON L0R 1X0 Discover one of Canada’s most time-honoured and tasty traditions. Explore historical and modern methods of making of maple syrup from the tree […]
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Good Friday March 30
Wednesday, March 14, Thursday, March 15 of March Break
10:00 – 4:00 pm
Westfield Heritage Village
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Discover how Hamilton's history has shaped the city it is today.
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Hamilton’s past has shaped the dynamic city it is today.
From our many designated National Historic Sites (15 at last check!) to our defining role as an industrial hub, Hamilton's roots tell a fascinating story about how the city has evolved into the destination it is today.
Sure, you can read all about it on your own. But that’s nowhere near as interesting as coming to visit in person to experience it for yourself.
Here are some top picks for the history buff exploring Hamilton.
1. Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
Learn More
There's no place quite like it anywhere. Since 1972, the museum has pulled together an impressive collection of more than 40 vintage aircraft dating back to World War II, making it Canada's largest flying museum! You can do a lot more than just marvel at planes here. Climb into a cockpit, try a flight simulator, or even book a flight!
Don't Miss: The museum's biggest star is hands down the Avro Lancaster Bomber, the only surviving Lancaster in the world you can purchase a flight on. (The only other air-worthy Lancaster in the world is with the Royal Air Force in the UK).
2. Dundurn National Historic Site
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A visit to Hamilton isn't complete without a stop at one of the city's most iconic sites. The lavish, 40-room Victorian-era home overlooking the bay was the former home of one of Canada's first premiers, Sir Allan MacNab. It's Hamilton's own Downton Abbey!
The site was previously a key trading location for the Mississaugas and later, a fortified military encampment for British and loyalist soldiers during the War of 1812.
Don't Miss: Dundurn's two-acre Kitchen Garden is a destination unto itself where costumed interpreters use 19th Century tools and techniques to cultivate flowers, herbs, and food for use in the castle's kitchen and for the community. Come winter, the castle's Victorian Christmas program is a must-experience.
3. Westfield Heritage Village
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Unplug and slow down at this living history museum in Rockton in rural Hamilton. Costumed interpreters help bring early Canadian culture to life as they lead demonstrations on everything from blacksmithing to bread-making across 35 carefully restored historic buildings. The 130-hectare site is bordered by beautiful wooded trails and meadows.
Don’t miss: Favourite annual events like magical holiday programming, the Maple Syrup (winter) and Ice Cream (summer) festivals, make Westfield a year-round destination.
4. Battlefield House Museum & Park
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The 19th-century homestead, nestled under the scenic Niagara Escarpment and surrounded by acres of parkland, is a National Historic Site and local treasure. Once home to the prominent Gage Family, it was also the site of the pivotal 1813 Battle of Stoney Creek, a turning point in the War of 1812 where invading American forces were pushed back. The event is marked annually by the Re-enactment of the Battle of Stoney Creek.
Don't Miss: Be sure to visit the 100-foot tall Battlefield Monument erected as a symbol of peace and to commemorate the casualties of the Battle of Stoney Creek. Nearby stands the striking Eagles Among Us (more below).
5. Eagles Among Us
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This striking public art piece was commissioned by the City of Hamilton for Battlefield Park in Stoney Creek. The artwork by David M. General, an Oneida/Mohawk Indigenous artist and member of the Six Nations of the Grand River, consists of four, nine-foot-tall granite carved eagles inscribed with symbols and text around the theme of healing and reconciliation, inspired by the cultural traditions of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabek communities.
Don't Miss: The site has since become an important place of reflection and gathering in Hamilton. In the artist's own words Eagles Among us is "an invitation to people to consider the history, look at how things were, look at how things can be made better by the generations today. It creates a special sacred space and you can stand in the middle of that".
6. Griffin House
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This National Historic Site shares the fascinating history of Enerals Griffin and other early Black settlers at this preserved home set on a hilltop overlooking the beautiful Dundas Valley. When closed, the museum can be experienced here virtually.
Don't Miss: For more on the contributions of the African and Caribbean diaspora in Hamilton explore the Black History Audio Tour on the rich history of Little Africa around Concession Street.
7. HMCS HAIDA
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The Tribal-class destroyer distinguished itself during a number of historic battles during World War II and beyond. It’s now a Parks Canada Historic Site docked at Hamilton’s West Harbour (Pier 9) that helps visitors discover what life was like for crew members serving on board with the Canadian Navy and develop a deeper appreciation of the role it played on the international battlefront.
Don’t Miss: Throughout the summer season, take a guided tour for a snapshot of life at sea and explore the ship's inner workings, from deck to engine room.
8. Hamilton Museum of Steam & Technology
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You’ll love getting a behind-the-scenes look at the early days of Canada’s industrial revolution with two preserved 70-ton powered water pumping engines. Museum curators take guests on a fascinating journey that created these engineering feats housed in this 150-year-old waterworks.
Don’t Miss: Popular events here include model train shows, hands-on workshops and Golden Horseshoe Live Steamer Days throughout the summer complete with miniature train rides and free guided tours.
9. Whitehern Historic House & Garden
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Experience one of Canada's most intact historic homes in this fascinating downtown museum. Costumed interpreters help unearth the lives of the three generations of the McQuesten family who lived here from 1852 to 1968. The historic house and all of its contents were given to the City of Hamilton in 1959 to be appreciated by future generations. It’s a rare glimpse into Georgian, Victorian, and Edwardian time periods.
Don't Miss: Wait for summer to experience Whitehern's stunning garden – a secret, walled oasis in the heart of downtown. Look out for special lunchtime concerts.
10. The Rock Garden at Royal Botanical Gardens
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Opened to visitors in 1932, the historic Rock Garden is considered the birthplace of Royal Botanical Gardens. Before there was the QEW and Highway 403, the Rock Garden was part of a design to help enhance the beauty of Hamilton as the main entry point into the city from Toronto. Escarpment stone from the Red Hill Valley was transported here, to this former gravel pit, to start the process. The rejuvenated garden features year-round perennial and conifer displays and a tranquil waterfall and stream.
Don't Miss: The Rock Garden's stunning Visitor Centre is a great place for special events and dining. It's also the launching pad for year-round events in the garden.
11. Architecture Tour
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Hamilton’s architecture is widely considered unique in the region for the quantity and variety of preserved historic buildings. Early standouts include Griffin House (1827), Dundurn Castle (1835), Hamilton Customs House (1860), Whitehern (1848), and St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church (1857). Later examples include LIUNA Station (1930) and the Lister Block (1923), now beautifully restored and home to the Tourism Hamilton Visitor Experience Centre.
Don’t Miss: Take this self-guided Downtown Hamilton Heritage Walking Tour to discover architectural gems spanning decades of the city’s history.
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Interested in a little summer time travel? Westfield Heritage Village is a stunning collection of over 30 historical buildings, making it one of the most interesting historical destinations in Ontario. Carefully restored and staffed with costumed interpreters, the buildings capture the true charm and spirit of early Canadian culture.
Westfield Heritage Village provides educational, all-ages fun, as Frugal Mom Eh! Blogger, Elizabeth recently found out, “Westfield Heritage Village is a true treasure and so interesting and fun for all ages, and I am thrilled that we discovered it!”
Read all about Elizabeth’s trip to Westfield Heritage Village with her young daughter below.
EXPLORE EARLY CANADIAN CULTURE AT WESTFIELD HERITAGE VILLAGE #HAMILTONHALTONBRANT
ELIZABETH – I spent the afternoon with my Sister, Keira and Ava walking through Westfield Heritage Village, located in Rockton (Hamilton), Ontario.
Westfield Heritage Village is a collection of over 40 historical buildings sourced from the surrounding area and restored as accurately as possible in order to recreate a village typical of the late 19th century.
The village is staffed with costumed historical interpreters and offers many demonstrations of how things were done at the time.
Note that the village is mostly in the middle of a woodlot so be sure to bring not only sunscreen but insect repellent as well. It is also partially wheelchair accessible which also means only partially stroller accessible. I would recommend using a baby carrier if possible as getting baby in and out of the stroller to look through buildings with second floors or steps gets a bit silly.
Most of the village is walk-able via dirt path and it is fairly large. I think we got to maybe 1/2 of the buildings, so we will definitely be heading back later in the summer to take in the rest, perhaps during the Ice Cream Carnival in August.
Our first stop was the Blacksmith’s House which was built before 1828 in Beverly Township. It apparently housed a family of 10 with one large main room, a parlour, a pantry and an upstairs loft for sleeping quarters.
Right across from the Blacksmith’s house is the Blacksmith Shop which was one of the very first buildings moved to Westfield. The Blacksmith was happy to demonstrate use of the billows as well as to share with us many fascinating details of his trade.
We loved walking through the covered bridge which is a reproduction of the style of bridge you would find in the Victorian Era. The details, right down to the lantern holders are really special. It reminded me of the covered bridge in Road to Avonlea.
I have to say that all the interpreters we came across were quite excellent. All were very knowledgeable and obviously interested in the history of the building they were interpreting.
The newest addition to Westfield is the Westbrook House, which apparently just opened in May for viewing. The building was brought over from Brant County and was build by the family of Haggai Westbrook around 1810. The Westbrook House is in striking contrast to the Blacksmith’s House which was more the type you would find in Upper Canada at the time. The Westbrooks were obviously wealthy and the house is what would have been considered large at the time.
Mountsberg Church was built in 1854 by Charles Mount in Mountsberg. According to the guide, until 1870 women were seated to the right and men on the left. Our interpreter had a wealth of information to share with us about the building – it’s history and its restoration. The Church is also available for contemporary weddings which would be pretty amazing between the use of the Church, the beautiful grounds themselves and the Hall also available for events.
My sister was particularly interested in visiting the Drug Store which combines the examining room of Dr. Beattie with an apothecary. The stained glass window, showing a mortar and pestle, was made for the first drug store in St. George. The interpreter playing Dr. Beattie demonstrated how a tooth would have been pulled at the time as well as how medicines and pills would have been made at the time.
Located right behind the Drug Store is the The TH&B station, originally located in the village of Jerseyville, was built in 1896 and operated between Hamilton and Brantford. It was also featured in the movie Anne of Green Gables and the television series Road to Avonlea. Keira got a train ticket which she faithfully held on to the rest of our day.
Visitors are able to even venture inside one of the cars of the train which seemed to particularly fascinate Keira. It was actually really interesting to see inside, I was surprised by all that I found in there, I wouldn’t have expected some of the facilities we found inside.
TH&B Locomotive 103, this Class “G” Consolidated type steam locomotive was built in Montreal in 1910 for the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway as No. 52, but its number was changed twice, finally to 103. After many years of service, this mighty locomotive, one of two of its type to be preserved, was placed in Hamilton’s Gage Park before being moved to Westfield in the early 1970’s.
McRoberts Dry Goods Store was originally located in the town of Troy, the second floor depicts the working and living area of a seamstress. The main floor features ready-made clothing, materials, and trimmings for making your own. It features a rather large and impressive collection of clothing from the time period, including a section of baby and childrens clothing.
Stopping in at the General Store is a must. The building is from the village of Springfield in Elgin County, circa 1848. The storekeeper also served as a banker, extending or denying credit to his customers. Eddie D. Cat Confectionery features old-fashioned candies and other treats.
It was hot so this was the perfect time to buy some ice cold soda from the General store and enjoy it out on the boardwalk. I definitely recommend the Black Cherry. Yum!
Another of our favourite stops was the Cathcart School. Built in 1845, from Brant County. The schoolhouse was particularly interesting to us as our dad actually attended a one-room schoolhouse before it burnt down in 1957, the very same one my grandmother attended in the 1920s.
Keira loved practising her letters on the slate boards with real slate pencils. The school also features a bell the teacher may let you ring if you’ve been well behaved and remember to clean your slate.
Operated by Hamilton Conservation Authority, Westfield Heritage Village is open Sundays and Holidays from 12:30 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. from March through October.
Next time we will show up at opening and planned to stay for the day, and we will definitely be returning to see the rest and to experience the village during different seasons. Westfield Heritage Village is a true treasure and so interesting and fun for all ages, and I am thrilled that we discovered it!
Westfield Heritage Village is open for Canada Day, and I can’t think of a better way to celebrate than by exploring life at the very beginning of our wonderful Country.
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Westfield Heritage Village’s annual “ice cream festival” is happening this weekend.
The heritage centre invites families to an Edwardian-style carnival with old attractions like “sitting on the moon” and ring toss.
Kids even got the chance to ride in a cart pulled by an old-timey steam whistle train. The highlight of the day? Ice cream!
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Those with a knack for history and learning will feel right at home in Pennsylvania’s Americana Region. Strolling through galleries and historical sites is a favorite pastime in Berks County, PA. With a slew of different museums and exhibits to choose from, there’s always something new to discover.
Transportation
If you’re interested in all things planes, trains, and automobiles – look no further. You can find anything with wheels or wings in one of our region's many museums.
The Reading Railroad Heritage Museum gives visitors an in-depth look into the history of the Reading railroad system and how it transformed the Americana region. While you learn, take an up-close look at original documents, railroad blueprints, and real-life train equipment.
For model train lovers, the National Toy Train Museum in nearby Strasburg houses one of the largest collections of toy trains. Displays are updated yearly and include rare and unusual trains dating all the way back to the 1800s.
Once you’ve learned all you can about the railroad system, head to the Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles to see over 90 Pennsylvania-built vehicles on display. Learn about the evolution of wagons, cars, bicycles, trucks, and more!
If flying high is more your style, Mid-Atlantic Air Museum in Reading is a must stop. The museum tells the story of the people, ideas, perseverance, and patriotism that made aviation possible. Mid-Atlantic’s annual World War II Weekend is held the first full weekend of June annually and offers attendees one of the biggest and best WWII reenactment experiences in the USA.
Not to be overlooked is Boyertown’s Gen Carl Spaatz National USAAF Museum with interactive exhibits of aerial warfare and more.
History
Explore Mayan treasures, Native American artifacts, famous art installations, and more at the Reading Public Museum. The museum has over 300,000 relics and hosts tons of temporary exhibits throughout the year. Kids of all ages can take a deep dive into kid-friendly topics and enjoy hands-on activities while learning. While you’re there, take your experience out of this world at the Neag Planetarium. Learn all about astronomy by attending one of their shows. Check their daily schedule for themed shows that make learning more fun for children.
Find galleries and exhibits featuring folk art, clocks, and artifacts at Berks History Center, a museum and research library in Reading. Also in Reading is the Berks County Heritage Center, home to historic landmarks, including a grist mill. For a better understanding of PA Dutch culture and history, visit the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center in Kutztown. And for all things firefighting, explore the artifacts and vehicles on display at the always fascinating Reading Area Firefighters Museum.
Arts & Science
You’ll be awed by creativity when you visit GoggleWorks Center for the Arts. The factory turned arts center invites visitors to walk its galleries, chat with artists at work, and watch glass blowing and woodworking demonstrations. The 145,000-square-foot complex inspires visitors to expand the boundaries of art in one of the largest art centers of its kind in the country.
Another unique center in the city is the Reading Science Center. This nonprofit organization is a hands-on center that encourages the love of science through interactive exhibits and workshops. The Reading Science Center is a popular attraction for young and old minds alike.
There are so many places to learn and discover in Berks County and Reading, Pennsylvania. All you have to do now is choose where to start!
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The Westfield Heritage Village is a heritage centre located just west of Rockton, Ontario, Canada. The village contains over 30 historic buildings on a 3.4-square-kilometre (840-acre) site. It is operated by the Hamilton Conservation Authority.[1]
In 1961, the Westfield Pioneer Village Association was established by two Brantford high school teachers, D. Glenn Kilmer and Golden Macdonnell, who purchased land near Rockton, Ontario, using their own money. Doreen Kilmer, a teacher and wife of Glenn Kilmer wasn't part of the Association. However, she participated equally in the development and management of Westfield. It acquired the original 30 acres (120,000 m2) of land. Their goal was to save heritage buildings that were in danger of being destroyed and also to create a hands-on educational facility to teach pioneer life. Glenn Kilmer's father had been a builder and owner of Kilmer Lumber Company in Aylmer Ontario (subsequently sold to Beaver Lumber Co). Golden Macdonnell was a science teacher who had a keen interest in the history of Ontario. Both men were able to reconstruct the donated buildings which arrived at Westfield. Golden built the forges from fieldstone on the site and Doreen managed the General Store. The original name of the facility was the Westfield Pioneer Village. The Village unofficially opened in June 1963 and officially opened in 1964. Westfield Village was open to the public on weekends in June, September and October and during the summer holidays, seven days a week from 10:00 a.m to 5:00 pm. It provided jobs for students as well as ladies in the area who operated school tours. There were 12 buildings open at this time staffed by students.
In May 1968 the former Wentworth County purchased the village for CAD $32,700. Ownership transferred to the Wentworth County on November 1, 1968.
The name was changed to Wentworth Heritage Village in 1981 because much of the collection was not of the pioneer era.
The village ceased operation on September 3, 1984 due to a financial crisis. Over the next few years various ideas were discuss ranging from moving the facility to creating a theme park.
Starting in 1985, several scenes from the Anne of Green Gables movie series were shot in the village. Including buildings such as the saw mill, church, train station and general store.
A five-year redevelopment began in 1990. The goal was to create a "special events theme centre" and the facility was renamed the Westfield Heritage Centre.
In 2010 the village received a substantial grant from the TD (Toronto Dominion) bank to plant several groves of fruit trees and construct two beehives. As of May 2010 one was in operation and awaiting the arrival of more bees to enlarge the colony. A second beehive is being planned. The aim of the apiary program is to illustrate the importance of the European honey bee (Apius Mellifera ) to the settlers and to raise awareness for Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) .
The Museum is affiliated with: CMA, CHIN, and Virtual Museum of Canada.
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