Nick Timothy served as Joint Downing Street Chief of Staff, alongside Fiona Hill, to Prime Minister Theresa May, until his resignation in the wake of the 2017 general election.
17 Facts About Nick Timothy
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Nick Timothy was born in Birmingham, the son of a steel worker and a school secretary.
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Nick Timothy has cited as his inspiration in politics the Birmingham-born Liberal 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 benefit poorer people and has suggested the Conservative party should focus on benefiting all citizens.
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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.
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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 in a bid to be selected as the Conservative candidate for the Meriden constituency in the West Midlands, for the 2019 general election.
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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.