Tim Montgomerie

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Tim Montgomerie is the founder and editor of the website ConservativeHome.com.

Montomerie was born in 1970, and grew up in Hampshire and Germany. He studied Economics and Geography at Exeter University.[1]

In December 1990, he founded the Conservative Christian Fellowship with David Burrowes. He was the organisation's director for 13 years.[2]

From 1998 to 2003, Montgomerie ran the Conservative Party's outreach to faith communities and the voluntary sector. He was Iain Duncan Smith's chief of staff for his last two months as Conservative leader and in 2004 helped him to establish the Centre for Social Justice.[3]

Montgomerie launched the ConservativeHome website in 2005.[4]

In November 2008 he launched the London Centre for the Study of Anti-Americanism. In June 2009 he launched ConservativeIntelligence.com.[5]

Montgomerie is a co-founder of Nothing British.[6]

History

Tim Montgomerie and Sajid Javid created the Exeter Enterprise Forum while they were at Exeter University together in the early 1990's. The forum was a campaign group created in order to 'promote capitalism to students'.[7] While acting as president of the Exeter Enterprise Forum, Montgomerie was also the chairman of the Conservative Christian Fellowship.[8]

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Notes

  1. Introducing Tim Montgomerie, ConservativeHome, accessed 14 February 2010.
  2. Introducing Tim Montgomerie, ConservativeHome, accessed 14 February 2010.
  3. Introducing Tim Montgomerie, ConservativeHome, accessed 14 February 2010.
  4. Introducing Tim Montgomerie, ConservativeHome, accessed 14 February 2010.
  5. Introducing Tim Montgomerie, ConservativeHome, accessed 14 February 2010.
  6. Friday BNP news round up, Nothing British, 2 October 2009.
  7. Tim Montgomerie, Sajid Javid selected for Bromsgrove, ConservativeHome.com, Accessed 30-January-2010
  8. Tim Montgomerie, Riots and deprivation, The Times, 27-September-1991