George Young (politician)

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Sir George Young (2009)
Family crest of the Young Baronets, of Formosa Place

George Samuel Knatchbull Young, Baron Young of Cookham CH PC (born July 6, 1941 in Oxford , Oxfordshire , England ), formerly known as Sir George Young, 6th Baronet , is a British politician of the Conservative Party and was from May 2010 to September 2012 Leader of the conservatives in the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal ( Lord Privy Seal ) . From 2012 to 2014 he held the post of "Chief Whip" of the Conservative Party in the House of Commons. He was a member of the House of Commons from 1974 to 2015 and has been a member of the House of Lords since 2015.

biography

Origin, professional and local political career

George Young came from a family of diplomats . When his father, Sir George Peregrine "Gerry" Young, 5th Baronet, died in 1960, he inherited the title of Baronet created in 1813 , of Formosa Place in the County of Berkshire . His maternal grandfather, Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen , was also ambassador to numerous countries such as Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania , Persia , China , Turkey , Belgium and Luxembourg between 1930 and 1947 .

After visiting the Eton College , he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Christ Church College of Oxford University and completed this study in 1963. During his studies, he was involved in numerous offices in the Conservative Association and was also a member of the Standing Oxford Union Committee . After completing his studies, he became an employee of Handelsbank Hill Samuel before he worked for the National Bureau for Economic Development from 1966 to 1967. He then completed postgraduate studies at the University of Surrey , where he obtained a Master of Arts (MA Philosophy), before he was a business advisor at the Post Office Corporation from 1969 to 1974 .

In addition, Young began his political career in local politics for the district of Clapham Town as a member of the borough council of the London Borough of Lambeth , which at the time included his wife Aurelia Young and John Major . Like Major, he also lost his seat on the Borough Council in the 1971 election, but was previously elected to the Greater London Council (GLC) in 1970 as one of four representatives of the London Borough of Ealing and was a member until 1973. In 1973 his book Tourism: Blessing or Blight? .

Member of the House of Commons and Minister

In the elections of February 1974 Young was elected as a candidate of the Conservative Party for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and initially represented the constituency of Ealing Acton until 1997 . Between 1976 and 1979 he was also Parliamentary Director of the Conservative Opposition in the House of Commons ( Opposition Whip ).

After the Conservative Party won the general election in 1979 , he took over his first government office as Junior Health Minister in the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher . He then was Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of the Environment from 1981 to 1986. Most recently in 1990 he was briefly Whip of the government faction, connected to the court office of a controller of the royal household ( Comptroller of the Household ).

In the government of Thatcher's successor as Prime Minister, John Major , he was first from 1990 to 1994 Minister of Budget and Planning, and then Financial Secretary to the Treasury ( Treasury ). In 1995 he was appointed by Prime Minister Major as Secretary of State for Transport to the Cabinet for the first time and was a member of this until the end of Major's term after the election defeat in the general election of May 1, 1997 .

In these elections he was himself elected to the House of Commons for the constituency of North West Hampshire , which he represents to this day. At the same time he was appointed a member of the conservative shadow cabinet , in which he was first "shadow defense minister" and then from 1998 to September 2000 shadow leader of the House of Commons ( Shadow Leader of the House ).

After he resigned from this office, he ran to succeed Betty Boothroyd for the office of Speaker of the House of Commons and was defeated by the Labor Party candidate , Michael Martin .

He was then chairman of the Committee on Standards and Privileges from 2001 to 2009, before running again for the office of Speaker of the House of Commons on June 22, 2009. This time, however, in the struggle to succeed Michael Martin, he was defeated by his party colleague John Bercow , who apparently hardly received any votes from his own party, but was elected mainly because of his close proximity to the Labor Party. After that, Young was again Shadow Leader of the House between 2009 and May 2010 .

After the Conservative Party's victory in the 2010 general election , he was appointed Lord Seal Keeper by Prime Minister David Cameron on May 12, 2010 and was also the leader of the Conservative parliamentary group and thus Leader of the House of Commons and, in this capacity, also a participant in the Cabinet meeting . In these elections he was re-elected as a member of the lower house with his highest result of 58.3 percent of the vote.

In those roles, in September 2010, he pushed for solutions to MPs repaying unduly received financial assistance during the Expenses Scandal, with himself receiving the maximum rate of £ 127,000 for his second home in London.

At the same time, he advocates a fixed five-year legislative period .

From October 19, 2012 to July 14, 2014 he held the post of "Chief Whip" of the Conservative Party in the House of Commons. On March 30, 2015, he left the House of Commons.

Life peer

On September 29, 2015, Young was named a Life Peer , Baron Young of Cookham, of Cookham in the Royal County of Berkshire . This also made him a member of the House of Lords . Since July 2016 Lord Young has been Lord-in-Waiting and thus a whip of Theresa May's government .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. London Gazette No. 60274, September 20, 2012. Retrieved September 24, 2012
  2. THIS IS HAMPSHIRE: Sir George Young clocks up his biggest ever win (May 7, 2010)
  3. BBC NEWS: Sir George Young urges action over expenses deals (23 September 2010)
  4. THE SUNDAY TIMES: Saturday interview: Sir George Young ready to ride to the rescue of Parliament (February 5, 2010)
  5. ^ THE TELEGRAPH: MPs expenses: Sir George Young claimed £ 127,000 on London flat (May 22, 2009)
  6. CONSERVATIVE HOME'S PLATFORM: Sir George Young MP: We want fixed term for Parliament not Governments (May 14, 2010)
  7. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/10/19/george-young-chief-whip_n_1989810.html
  8. ^ The London Gazette, Issue 61369, Oct. 2, 2015, p. 18374 , accessed Oct. 24, 2015.
  9. ^ New ministerial appointment July 2016: Lord in Waiting (Government Whip). Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street, July 25, 2016, accessed August 16, 2016 .
predecessor title successor
George Young Baronet, of Formosa Place
1960 – present
current title holder