George Young, Baron Young of Cookham, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetGeorge Young, Baron Young of Cookham
British politician
Date of Birth: 16-Jul-1941
Place of Birth: Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Profession: politician
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About George Young, Baron Young of Cookham
- George Samuel Knatchbull Young, Baron Young of Cookham, (born 16 July 1941), known as Sir George Young, 6th Baronet, from 1960 to 2015, is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 2015, having represented North West Hampshire from 1997 and Ealing Acton prior to that.
- He has served in Cabinet on three occasions: as Secretary of State for Transport from 1995 to 1997; as the Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal from 2010 to 2012; and as Chief Whip of the House of Commons from 2012 to 2014. He stood down from the Commons at the 2015 election and was created a life peer, as Baron Young of Cookham, of Cookham in the Royal County of Berkshire, on 29 September 2015.
- He sits on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords, where he served as a junior whip from July 2016 to August 2019.
- Young resigned from this position on 29 August in protest at Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decision to suspend parliament.
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