Sir George Young, 6th Baronet

Sir George Samuel Knatchbull Young, 6th Baronet ( born July 6, 1941 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England), CH, 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). Since October 2012, he held the office of " Chief Whip " of the Conservative Party in the House of Commons.

Biography

Origin, profession and municipal political career

George Young was born into a family of diplomats. When his father Sir George Peregrine " Gerry " Young died in 1960, he inherited from him the title of Baronet created in 1813 of Formosa Place. His maternal grandfather, Hughe Knatchbull - Hugessen, was 1930-1947 Ambassador to many countries such as Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Persia, China, Turkey, Belgium and Luxembourg.

After attending Eton College, he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE ) at Christ Church College, University of Oxford and completed this study in 1963. During his studies he engaged in a variety of offices in the Conservative Association and was also a member of the Standing Committee of the Oxford Union. After graduating, he joined the merchant bank Hill Samuel, before he worked from 1966 to 1967 in the National Economic Development Office. He then completed a postgraduate course at the University of Surrey and acquired there a Master of Arts (MA Philosophy), before he was then from 1969 to 1974 economic adviser to the Post Office Corporation.

In addition, Young began his political career in local government for the district Clapham Town as a member of the City District Council of the London Borough of Lambeth, which at the time in addition to his wife Aurelia Young and John Major was a member. As Major he also lost his seat in the Borough Council in the election in 1971, although he was previously selected in 1970 as one of four representatives of the London Borough of Ealing as a member of the Greater London Council (GLC ) and belonged to this until 1973. In 1973 he published his book Tourism: Blessing or Blight? .

House of Commons Member of Parliament and Minister

In the elections of February 1974 Young was first elected as a candidate of the Conservative Party for the Members of the House and represented in this until 1997 at first the constituency of Ealing Acton. Between 1976 and 1979 he was also Parliamentary Secretary of the conservative opposition in the House of Commons ( Opposition Whip ).

After the electoral victory of the Conservative Party in the general election in 1979, he took over the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as a Junior Health Minister his first government post. Subsequently, he was from 1981 to 1986 Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Environment. Most recently, he was in 1990 briefly Whip of the Government Group, attached to the court office of an inspector of the royal household ( Comptroller of the Household ).

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

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

After he had resigned from the post, he was a candidate to succeed Betty Boothroyd for the Office of the House Speaker ( Speaker of the House of Commons ) and but lost to the candidate of the Labour Party, Michael Martin.

After that, he was from 2001 to 2009 Chairman of the Committee on Standards and Privileges, before he again ran on 22 June 2009 for the post of House speaker. But this time he was defeated in the battle to succeed Michael Martin his party colleague John Bercow, who obviously barely votes of his own party was given, but was mainly chosen from this because of its close proximity to the Labour Party. Then Young between 2009 and May 2010 was again Shadow Leader of the House was.

After the electoral victory of the Conservative Party in the general election in 2010 he was appointed by Prime Minister David Cameron on 12 May 2010 to Lord Privy Seal and is also leader of the Conservative government faction, and thus Leader of the House of Commons and in this capacity also participants in the meeting of the Cabinet. He was re-elected to the House of Representatives again in this election with his highest score of 58.3 percent of the vote.

In these roles, he urged in September 2010 to solutions because of repayments wrongly received financial benefits by deputies during the so-called " Expenses Scandal ", in which he himself received the maximum rate of 127,000 pounds sterling for his second home in London.

He also argues for a fixed five -year term.

Since October 2012, he held the office of " Chief Whip " of the Conservative Party in the House of Commons.