Anthony Boutall
@anthonyboutall
Dad, husband, & Assistant Headteacher. Conservative PPC in 2024. Fellow of RSA & ASI, MCCT, & former Cllr. Jazz musician & volunteer tutor. Views my own.
As I argue in the @Telegraph, “[closing] off the best that our civilisation has to offer young people in the name of drab collectivist homogeneity is terrifying… “Our role in education is not to tear everything down and enforce what Churchill called the “equal sharing of…
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We talk about the greatest singers of all time too often. There’s only truly room for a select few in the hall of fame. Cleo Laine belongs.
I was lucky enough to meet Dame Cleo Laine & actually play some jazz with her amazingly talented husband, Johnny Dankworth, believe it or not. My grandparents also volunteered a lot when this great jazz couple set up The Stables at Wavendon, & so their influence on me is not…
Thank you @kevinhollinrake for the call just now as our new Party Chairman, and congratulations! I and the rest of the @Conservatives National Convention and voluntary party look forward to working with you. 💙💪
More agriculture, forestry & fishing businesses have closed over the past year than at any point since quarterly data were first published. Labour’s destruction of family businesses & rural communities is indefensible. telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…
🌳⬆🟢⬇Congratulations to Cllr Andrew Dinsmore on gaining Barleythorpe from the Greens in Rutland! If you vote Conservative, you get Conservatives.
I was delighted to visit The Scoop Company at its brand-new pop-up in BOXPARK Croydon - founded by Croydon-born Maria Grey, a mum of two whose gelato journey began in her dad’s ice cream van. She left her job at a dentist’s to follow her dream – opening her first store in…
🚨 The Labour Mayor wants to shut Hammersmith’s 24/7 police counter, breaking his promise to keep one open per borough. ‼️ Sign our petition to tell him: keep it open! hfconservatives.org.uk/saveourpolicec…
Ed Miliband promised he was going to cut energy bills by £300. But now it’s clear that his plan will lock us all into higher prices for longer. Yesterday shows the truth. Higher bills for families and businesses are on the way. Read my letter to Ed👇🏾
🚨BREAKING🚨 Maximum strike prices for Ed Miliband's missing wind auction are out. Gruesome. Offshore wind: £113/MWh Higher than last year. Highest in a decade. And that's before all the extra costs of grid, backup, and wasted wind. As a comparison, the average cost of…
🤩Congratulations to Cllr Richard Stephenson on holding Alrewas & Fradley in Lichfield!
Swanage (Dorset) had three by-elections yesterday and three Conservative wins! Dorset Council unitary Con HOLD: Con: 1254 Ref: 737 Ld: 737 Ind: 415 Lab: 400 Swanage North TC - Con HOLD Con: 900 Lib: 309 Lab: 211 Ind: 481 Swanage South TC - Con GAIN from Labour Con: 534 Lab:…
Swanage (Dorset) Council By-Election Result: 🌳 CON: 35.4% (-0.4) ➡️ RFM: 20.8% (New) 🔶 LDM: 20.8% (+12.8) 🙋 Ind: 11.7% (-7.7) 🌹 LAB: 11.3% (-19.4) No GRN (-6.1) as previous. Conservative HOLD. Changes w/ 2024.
BREAKING: Conservatives GAIN Wyesham from Labour! 🎉
Vote for Xavier TODAY! ✅ Don't forget to vote for your local champion and the Welsh Conservative candidate today in the Monmouth Town Wyesham Ward by-election. 🏴🗳️ Polls close at 10pm. 🕥
🎉Congratulations to Cllr Simon Rubner on winning Borehamwood Brookmeadow Town ward on Elstree and Borehamwood Town Council! 👉hertsmere.gov.uk/news/results-o…
It was hot in 1990, too. In July, MT visited the annual fundraising jazz and curry shindig at Inglis Barracks —and was persuaded to repeat her recent drumming performance at Abbey Road Studios. Read about it: margaretthatcher.org/document/108152
“Record number of farms shut in wake of inheritance tax raid “Labour’s ‘disastrous policies’ blamed as more than 6,000 businesses close” telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…
Keir Starmer promised he would put more police on our streets. The truth? Under Labour, police officer numbers have fallen drastically.
🚨 BREAKING: Hulk Hogan, larger-than-life wrestler, dies aged 71 Read more here ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/0…
Whoops! youtube.com/watch?v=mtCIdp…
It’s not called Your Party!