Tim Montgomerie
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Tim Montgomerie in 2012
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24 July 1970 Hampshire, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | King's School, Gütersloh, Germany |
| Alma mater | University of Exeter, England |
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Tim Montgomerie (born 24 July 1970) is a British political activist, blogger, and columnist and former comment editor for The Times. He is best known as the co-founder of the Centre for Social Justice and as creator of the ConservativeHome website, which he edited from 2005 until 2013, when he left to join The Times. In March 2014, Montgomerie announced his resignation as comment editor of The Times. On 17 February 2016, Montgomerie resigned his membership of the Conservative Party, citing the current leadership's stance on Europe, which has been supportive of EU membership.
Montgomerie has been described as "one of the most important Conservative activists of the past 20 years", and in February 2012, The Observer said that "In the eyes of most MPs, Montgomerie [is] one of the most influential Tories outside the cabinet."
Montgomerie was born into an army family in Hampshire in 1970. He said in a Guardian interview that "his teenage Thatcherism was tempered by discovering evangelical Christianity at 16".
Montgomerie was educated at the King's School, a secondary school in Gütersloh, Germany run by the SCE for children of military personnel. He then attended the University of Exeter, where he studied Economics and Geography, and ran the Conservative Association with Robert Halfon, Sajid Javid and David Burrowes, all future Conservative members of parliament.
At Exeter University, Montgomerie and Burrowes also started the Conservative Christian Fellowship (CCF) in December 1990, supported by the Christian Coalition of America. During this period, he argued that the Conservative Party should form closer links with churches on issues such as homosexuality and Section 28, saying that the party should "expose the unbiblical and the libertine". He has since reversed his position on those issues. He served as Director of the CCF from 1990 to 2003.
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