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2 unusual facts about Sir George Young, 6th Baronet


Churchill Awards

Sir George Young (71) – 2012 Churchill Award for Contribution to Politics

Silent Minority

It was reported in Glasgow Herald that British health officials protesting release of the documentary, and that British Health Minister Sir George Young attacked the film as not being a true representation of such hospitals.


Greater London Council election, 1970

Among those who were first elected to the GLC in 1970 were Tony Banks (Labour, Hammersmith, later Minister for Sport) and Sir George Young (Conservative, Ealing, later a cabinet minister under John Major).

Sir George Young, 6th Baronet

When Young's Ealing Acton constituency was abolished because of boundary changes, he was parachuted into the safe Conservative seat of North West Hampshire at the 1997 General Election to replace the retiring MP Sir David Mitchell (the father of Andrew Mitchell who Young would, in 2012, succeed as Chief Whip).


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