Nick Timothy

Nick Timothy is a British political adviser.[1] As of 2016, he is Joint Downing Street Chief of Staff, serving alongside Fiona Hill.[2][3][4][5]

Timothy was a special adviser to Theresa May in the Home Office before spending some years as Director of the New Schools Network.[6][7] He took an unpaid sabbatical from this position to work on May's 2016 leadership campaign, and was appointed Joint Chief of Staff on 14 July 2016.[8] He also wrote a series of columns for ConservativeHome in 2015-16.[9]

A native of Birmingham, Timothy's father was a steel worker. He attended a grammar school and then the University of Sheffield.[10] He has supported conservative philosophies as benefiting poorer people and argued that the Conservative party must focus on benefiting everyone; he has cited as his inspiration in politics the Birmingham-born Liberal politician Joseph Chamberlain and has also written a short biography of him for the Conservative History Group.[11][12][13][14]

In 2015, Timothy wrote an article to express his worry that People's Republic of China was effectively buying Britain's silence on allegations of Chinese human rights abuse and opposed China's involvement in sensitive sectors such as the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station. He criticized David Cameron and George Osborne of "selling our national security to China" without rational concerns and "the Government seems intent on ignoring the evidence and presumably the advice of the security and intelligence agencies." He warned that security experts are worried the Chinese could use their role in the programme (designing and constructing nuclear reactor) to build weaknesses into computer systems which allow them to shut down Britain's energy production at will and "...no amount of trade and investment should justify allowing a hostile state easy access to the country's critical national infrastructure."[15][16] With Theresa May becoming Prime Minister, the project has been delayed for final approval.[17] He was rated by the Health Service Journal as the fifth most influential person in the English NHS in 2016.[18]

Timothy supported leaving the EU in the 2016 referendum.[19][1] He is a supporter of Aston Villa.[20]

References

  1. 1 2 Hardman, Isabel. "Beware the aides of May! The people who'll really run the new government". The Spectator. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  2. ↑ "BBC Politics Live - 14 July 2016". BBC News Online. BBC. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  3. ↑ McInerney, Laura. "Profiles: Nick Timothy". Schools Week. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  4. ↑ "Theresa May's Cabinet a triumph for state education and women as new Prime Minister sweeps away Cameron favourites in 'Day of the Long Knives'". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  5. ↑ "Press Release: Downing Street political advisers". Gov.uk. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  6. ↑ "Nick Timothy". Centre for Science and Policy. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  7. ↑ Parker, George. "Nick Timothy: Theresa May's political 'brain'". Financial Times. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  8. ↑ Timothy, Nick. "Twitter post". Twitter. Retrieved 15 July 2016. I am already on an unpaid sabbatical from NSN, Laura.
  9. ↑ "Authors - Nick Timothy". ConservativeHome. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  10. ↑ Richardson, Hannah. "School selection plans could undo years of reform - Morgan". BBC News. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  11. ↑ "Conservative History Group: Books". Conservative History Group. Retrieved 24 August 2016. Joseph Chamberlain was one of the dominant figures of Victorian and Edwardian Britain – but while he is remembered for his record as Mayor of Birmingham, his role in committing the Conservative Party to social reform has been neglected by modern Tories. In this study, Nick Timothy explores the many roles Chamberlain played during his political life – Radical and Unionist; outsider and Cabinet Minister – and argues that his legacy is every bit as important to modern Conservatism as Disraeli’s ‘One Nation’ approach and Randolph Churchill’s Tory Democracy
  12. ↑ "The sage of Birmingham: Theresa May's pugnacious chief-of-staff prescribes a new direction for the Conservative Party". The Economist. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
  13. ↑ Adams, Guy. "Steel worker's son they call Theresa May's brain". Daily Mail. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  14. ↑ Gimson, Andrew. "Profile: Nick Timothy, May's thinker-in-chief and co-Chief of Staff". ConservativeHome. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  15. ↑ Why have ministers delayed final approval for Hinkley Point C?, The Guardian, July 29, 2016
  16. ↑ Nick Timothy: The Government is selling our national security to China, Conservative Home, October 20, 2015
  17. ↑ Theresa May 'raised objections to project as home secretary', The Guardian, July 30, 2016
  18. ↑ "HSJ100 2016: The list in full". Health Service Journal. 11 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
  19. ↑ Timothy, Nick. "I've already voted Leave – but these wretched campaigns show everything that's wrong with British politics". ConservativeHome. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  20. ↑ Walker, Jonathan. "Theresa May's top advisor is a Brummie grammar school boy who loves Aston Villa". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 30 October 2016.

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