Kevin Hollinrake’s New Job: Around The Country Rebuilding Trust...

When Kevin Hollinrake achieved his dream in 2015 of becoming the MP for Thirsk and Malton, he could not have imagined that 10 years later he would become Chairman of the Conservative Party, but that is what happened as part of the summer 2025 reshuffle by Party leader Kemi Badenoch.

This is the latest step in the busy political career of a man who once described himself to me as “a very normal person”. When I spoke to him after he was first selected as the parliamentary candidate he recalled his childhood in Easingwold in a very community-focused family: “We always tried to help each other and people in the community.”

His father, Geoffrey, was a West Yorkshire sheep farmer who moved to Easingwold and bought the local milk round. "As kids we used to deliver milk up and down the street in milk barrels." His father became an Easingwold town councillor - and talk around the kitchen table was always of politics. "We were encouraged to have our say and our view, right from early on."



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