1. Nick Timothy was born in Birmingham, the son of a steel worker and a school secretary.
25 Facts About Nick Timothy
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Nick Timothy was the first member of his family to attend university.
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Nick Timothy has cited as his inspiration in politics the Birmingham-born Liberal Unionist politician Joseph Chamberlain, of whom he wrote a short biography for the Conservative History Group.
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Nick Timothy has supported conservative philosophies which he believes promote strong communities that make markets work and has argued the Conservative Party should focus on benefiting all citizens and regions.
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In 2004, Nick Timothy left the Conservative Research Department to work as corporate affairs adviser for the Corporation of London.
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In 2005, Nick Timothy took up a post as a policy adviser for the Association of British Insurers.
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In 2006, Nick Timothy returned to politics after two years in the financial sector, spending a year working for Theresa May - the first of three posts on May's staff.
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In 2007, Nick Timothy returned to the CRD, where he worked for a further three years.
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Nick Timothy spent five years working for the Home Secretary, before leaving, in 2015, to become a Director at the New Schools Network.
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In 2015, Nick Timothy wrote an article to express his worry that the People's Republic of China was effectively buying Britain's silence on allegations of Chinese human rights abuse and opposing China's involvement in sensitive sectors such as the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station.
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Nick Timothy has stated that he voted to leave the European Union in the 2016 membership referendum.
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May's campaign was a success and Nick Timothy was appointed Joint Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister on 14 July 2016.
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On 9 June 2017, Nick Timothy resigned as Joint Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister.
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Since leaving Downing Street, Nick Timothy has worked as a columnist for The Daily Telegraph newspaper and a sports columnist for The Critic.
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Nick Timothy is the founder and co-editor of the online newsletter The Conservative Reader.
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Nick Timothy published a book about the future of conservatism, Remaking One Nation, in 2020.
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Nick Timothy became a business consultant, founding trustee of a new specialist maths school, Chairman of the Future of Conservatism project at Onward, a Senior Policy Fellow at Policy Exchange, a visiting professor at Sheffield University, a visiting fellow at Wadham College, Oxford, and an adviser to the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.
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In January 2019 Nick Timothy was appointed as a member of the organising committee of the 2022 Commonwealth Games, to be held in his home city of Birmingham.
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In February 2018, Nick Timothy denied allegations of antisemitism following the publication of an article of which he was the principal author that claimed the existence of a "secret plot" to stop Brexit by the Jewish philanthropist George Soros.
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In November 2019, Nick Timothy failed to be selected as the Conservative candidate for the Meriden constituency in the West Midlands, for the 2019 general election.
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On 30 July 2023, Nick Timothy was selected as the Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for West Suffolk.
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Nick Timothy defeated incumbent MP for Penrith and The Border Neil Hudson and former Financial Times journalist Sebastian Payne.
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Nick Timothy said he hoped to "draw a line" under the controversy of Hancock who was suspended from the Conservative Party after he appeared on I'm a Celebrity.
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Nick Timothy was elected Member of Parliament for West Suffolk at the 2024 General Election.
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In 2024, Nick Timothy criticized the Labour government for approving the development of a large solar farm in his constituency.