I’m a very proud son today ...

The @Conservatives Party is and always has been the party of social mobility and aspiration. We let our actions speak for ourselves /2

Dad sometimes thought people went on about his background a little too much, he likes to point out he served as an MP a lot longer than he was down coal mines in the 1980s. /3

I've never tweeted about him before, because he's always been keen for me to forge my own career (and sometimes we have quite different opinions!)

Everyday I am proud of him, but today especially so, and there aren't many times in life that you feel at ease saying it ... /4

Thanks to Mum too, who's always been his biggest supporter in public, but on occasion has been more forthright at home and in private ...

Which probably sums up the McLoughlin's quite well.