Timothy Stephen Kenneth Yeo was born on 20 March 1945 and is a British politician.
22 Facts About Tim Yeo
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Tim Yeo served in the Shadow Cabinet from 1998 to 2005 under Conservative Party leaders William Hague, Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard.
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Tim Yeo was educated at Charterhouse School, before going on to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he read History and graduated in 1968.
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From 1970 to 1973, Tim Yeo was assistant treasurer of Bankers Trust Company.
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Tim Yeo resigned in the early nineties because of his parliamentary workload and was succeeded by Archie Norman.
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Tim Yeo asked the first televised Prime Minister's Question to Margaret Thatcher on 28 November 1989.
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In 1993, Tim Yeo was appointed Minister for the Environment and Countryside in John Major's government, but was forced to resign after a scandal involving his so-called "love child" with a Conservative councillor, Julia Stent, who was born on 8 July 1993.
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Tim Yeo resigned on 5 January 1994; he was the first ministerial casualty of the media reaction to John Major's Back to Basics campaign.
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Tim Yeo was promoted to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Minister of Agriculture in 1998.
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Tim Yeo was a member of Iain Duncan Smith's Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.
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In 2003, Tim Yeo was made Shadow Secretary for Education and Health by the party's new leader, Michael Howard, with responsibility for the party's policy on both schools and hospitals.
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Tim Yeo resigned from the shadow cabinet shortly after the 2005 general election, saying he wished to be free to play a role in rethinking the Conservative Party's future.
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The Daily Telegraph suggested this should raise questions about Kathryn Hudson's performance as Standards Commissioner, as she had previously cleared Mr Tim Yeo of breaching the rules on lobbying ministers for financial reward and of bringing the Commons into disrepute.
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Tim Yeo was deselected for the 2015 general election in a secret ballot of South Suffolk Conservative Party members on 29 November 2013.
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Tim Yeo remained the MP for the constituency until the election in May 2015.
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TMO Renewables collapsed, leading Tim Yeo to be sued by former stakeholders for misleading them in early 2018.
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Tim Yeo writes articles for Golf Weekly and Country Life magazines and, occasionally, the Financial Times.
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In June 2013 The Sunday Times released a video in which Yeo claimed to have told a representative of GB Railfreight how to act in front of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee, saying he was "able to tell him in advance what to say".
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Tim Yeo had earlier excused himself from the committee, on the grounds that he might be "biased" if he questioned an employee of a company for which he himself worked, and rejected the claims.
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Tim Yeo is chairman of New Nuclear Watch Europe and chairs the University of Sheffield Industrial Advisory Board for the Energy 2050 initiative.
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Tim Yeo married Diane Helen Pickard on 30 March 1970 in Greenwich.
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Tim Yeo fathered his first daughter in 1967 when he was still a student at Cambridge University and put her up for adoption.