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Not to be confused with the American sprinter, <a href="/wiki/Tim_Montgomery" title="Tim Montgomery">Tim Montgomery</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Tim Montgomerie</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:ConservativeHome%27s_Tim_Montgomerie_speaking_at_the_launch_of_PX_report_%27Northern_Lights%27.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/ConservativeHome%27s_Tim_Montgomerie_speaking_at_the_launch_of_PX_report_%27Northern_Lights%27.jpg/220px-ConservativeHome%27s_Tim_Montgomerie_speaking_at_the_launch_of_PX_report_%27Northern_Lights%27.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/ConservativeHome%27s_Tim_Montgomerie_speaking_at_the_launch_of_PX_report_%27Northern_Lights%27.jpg/330px-ConservativeHome%27s_Tim_Montgomerie_speaking_at_the_launch_of_PX_report_%27Northern_Lights%27.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/ConservativeHome%27s_Tim_Montgomerie_speaking_at_the_launch_of_PX_report_%27Northern_Lights%27.jpg/440px-ConservativeHome%27s_Tim_Montgomerie_speaking_at_the_launch_of_PX_report_%27Northern_Lights%27.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2309" data-file-height="2304" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Montgomerie in 2012</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Timothy Montgomerie</div><br /><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1970-07-24</span>) </span>24 July 1970<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 54)</span><br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Barnstaple" title="Barnstaple">Barnstaple</a>, Devon, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/King%27s_School_(G%C3%BCtersloh)" title="King's School (Gütersloh)">King's School</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Exeter" title="University of Exeter">University of Exeter</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data org"><a href="/wiki/Reform_UK" title="Reform UK">Reform UK</a> (2024–present)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other political<br />affiliations</th><td class="infobox-data org"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a> (1998–2016, 2019–2024)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://conservativehome.blogs.com">conservativehome<wbr />.blogs<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Timothy Montgomerie</b> (born 24 July 1970) is a British <a href="/wiki/Political_activist" class="mw-redirect" title="Political activist">political activist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Blogger" class="mw-redirect" title="Blogger">blogger</a>, and columnist. He is best known as the co-founder of the <a href="/wiki/Centre_for_Social_Justice" title="Centre for Social Justice">Centre for Social Justice</a> and as creator of the <a href="/wiki/ConservativeHome" title="ConservativeHome">ConservativeHome</a> website, which he edited from 2005 until 2013, when he left to join <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i>. </p><p>He was formerly the newspaper's comment editor, but resigned in March 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 17 February 2016, Montgomerie resigned his membership of the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a>, citing the leadership's stance on Europe, which was then supportive of EU membership.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2019, he was briefly a special adviser to Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Boris_Johnson" title="Boris Johnson">Boris Johnson</a>, advising on social justice issues.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Montgomerie has been described as "one of the most important Conservative activists of the past 20 years",<sup id="cite_ref-TimesDF_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TimesDF-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in February 2012, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer">The Observer</a></i> said that "In the eyes of most MPs, Montgomerie [is] one of the most influential Tories outside the cabinet."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In December 2024, he quit the Conservatives and joined <a href="/wiki/Reform_UK" title="Reform UK">Reform UK</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tim_Montgomerie&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Montgomerie was born into an <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">army</a> family in <a href="/wiki/Barnstaple" title="Barnstaple">Barnstaple</a> in 1970.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He said in a <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">Guardian</a></i> interview<sup id="cite_ref-guardian2310_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian2310-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that his "teenage <a href="/wiki/Thatcherism" title="Thatcherism">Thatcherism</a> was tempered... by discovering <a href="/wiki/Evangelical_Christianity" class="mw-redirect" title="Evangelical Christianity">evangelical Christianity</a> at sixteen". </p><p>Montgomerie was educated at the <a href="/wiki/King%27s_School_(G%C3%BCtersloh)" title="King's School (Gütersloh)">King's School</a>, a secondary school in <a href="/wiki/G%C3%BCtersloh" title="Gütersloh">Gütersloh</a>, Germany, run by <a href="/wiki/Service_Children%27s_Education" title="Service Children's Education">Service Children's Education</a> (SCE) for children of military personnel.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He then attended the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Exeter" title="University of Exeter">University of Exeter</a>, where he studied Economics and Geography, and ran the Conservative Association with <a href="/wiki/Robert_Halfon" title="Robert Halfon">Robert Halfon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sajid_Javid" title="Sajid Javid">Sajid Javid</a> and <a href="/wiki/David_Burrowes" title="David Burrowes">David Burrowes</a>, all future Conservative members of parliament.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian2310_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian2310-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At Exeter University, Montgomerie and Burrowes also started the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Christian_Fellowship" title="Conservative Christian Fellowship">Conservative Christian Fellowship</a> (CCF) in December 1990, supported by the <a href="/wiki/Christian_Coalition_of_America" title="Christian Coalition of America">Christian Coalition of America</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During this period, he argued that the Conservative Party should form closer links with churches on issues such as homosexuality and <a href="/wiki/Section_28" title="Section 28">Section 28</a>, saying that the party should "expose the unbiblical and the libertine".<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He has since reversed his position on those issues.<sup id="cite_ref-Grice_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grice-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He served as Director of the CCF from 1990 to 2003.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian2310_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian2310-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tim_Montgomerie&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Montgomerie worked briefly at the <a href="/wiki/Bank_of_England" title="Bank of England">Bank of England</a> in the 1990s as a statistician, where his responsibilities included the <a href="/wiki/Russian_economy" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian economy">Russian economy</a> and the study of <a href="/wiki/Systemic_risk" title="Systemic risk">systemic risk</a> in <a href="/wiki/Financial_system" title="Financial system">financial systems</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Conservative_Party_Central_Office">Conservative Party Central Office</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tim_Montgomerie&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Conservative Party Central Office"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From 1998 to 2003, Montgomerie was the <a href="/wiki/Speechwriter" title="Speechwriter">speech-writer</a> for two <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Leader of the Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party leaders</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Hague" title="William Hague">William Hague</a>, and then <a href="/wiki/Iain_Duncan_Smith" title="Iain Duncan Smith">Iain Duncan Smith</a>. He also had responsibility for the Conservative Party's outreach to faith communities and the voluntary sector.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian2310_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian2310-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In September 2003, Montgomerie became Conservative Party leader Duncan Smith's Chief of Staff; Duncan Smith was replaced by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Howard" title="Michael Howard">Michael Howard</a> two months later.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He had become a main influence behind Duncan Smith's theme of <a href="/wiki/Compassionate_conservatism" title="Compassionate conservatism">compassionate conservatism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Centre_for_Social_Justice">Centre for Social Justice</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tim_Montgomerie&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Centre for Social Justice"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2004, with Iain Duncan Smith and <a href="/wiki/Philippa_Stroud" class="mw-redirect" title="Philippa Stroud">Philippa Stroud</a>, Montgomerie established the <a href="/wiki/Centre_for_Social_Justice" title="Centre for Social Justice">Centre for Social Justice</a> to take forward the work on "compassionate conservatism" that Smith had begun as party leader.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian2310_8-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian2310-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following the tradition of people such as <a href="/wiki/William_Wilberforce" title="William Wilberforce">William Wilberforce</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Shaftesbury" title="Earl of Shaftesbury">Earl of Shaftesbury</a> and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Oastler" title="Richard Oastler">Richard Oastler</a> he aimed to make the condition of the poor a priority. He established a <a href="/wiki/Social_action" title="Social action">social action</a> project called "Renewing One Nation" which helped Duncan Smith focus on these issues.<sup id="cite_ref-TimesDF_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TimesDF-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="ConservativeHome">ConservativeHome</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tim_Montgomerie&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: ConservativeHome"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ConservativeHome%27s_Tim_Montgomerie_and_Lib_Dem_Voice%27s_Mark_Pack_speaking_at_the_launch_of_PX_report_%27Northern_Lights%27.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/ConservativeHome%27s_Tim_Montgomerie_and_Lib_Dem_Voice%27s_Mark_Pack_speaking_at_the_launch_of_PX_report_%27Northern_Lights%27.jpg/220px-ConservativeHome%27s_Tim_Montgomerie_and_Lib_Dem_Voice%27s_Mark_Pack_speaking_at_the_launch_of_PX_report_%27Northern_Lights%27.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/ConservativeHome%27s_Tim_Montgomerie_and_Lib_Dem_Voice%27s_Mark_Pack_speaking_at_the_launch_of_PX_report_%27Northern_Lights%27.jpg/330px-ConservativeHome%27s_Tim_Montgomerie_and_Lib_Dem_Voice%27s_Mark_Pack_speaking_at_the_launch_of_PX_report_%27Northern_Lights%27.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/ConservativeHome%27s_Tim_Montgomerie_and_Lib_Dem_Voice%27s_Mark_Pack_speaking_at_the_launch_of_PX_report_%27Northern_Lights%27.jpg/440px-ConservativeHome%27s_Tim_Montgomerie_and_Lib_Dem_Voice%27s_Mark_Pack_speaking_at_the_launch_of_PX_report_%27Northern_Lights%27.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2304" /></a><figcaption>Montgomerie (left) at a <a href="/wiki/Policy_Exchange" title="Policy Exchange">Policy Exchange</a> event in 2012 with Mark Pack of <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrat_Voice" title="Liberal Democrat Voice">Liberal Democrat Voice</a></figcaption></figure> <p>On 28 March 2005, Montgomerie launched the <a href="/wiki/ConservativeHome" title="ConservativeHome">ConservativeHome</a> website in the period just before the <a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">general election campaign</a> that year.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With Conservative MP <a href="/wiki/John_Hayes_(British_politician)" title="John Hayes (British politician)">John Hayes</a>, he also set up conservativedemocracy.com, which successfully co-ordinated grassroots opposition to party leader <a href="/wiki/Michael_Howard" title="Michael Howard">Michael Howard</a>'s attempt to abolish the "one member, one vote" rule in the <a href="/wiki/2005_Conservative_Party_(UK)_leadership_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2005 Conservative Party (UK) leadership election">2005 Conservative leadership election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 2006, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Independent" title="The Independent">The Independent</a></i> described Montgomerie as "emerging as a major player in Tory politics."<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was critical of the <a href="/wiki/A-List_(Conservative)" class="mw-redirect" title="A-List (Conservative)">A-List</a> and argued that the party leader after 2005, <a href="/wiki/David_Cameron" title="David Cameron">David Cameron</a>, was in danger of alienating working-class Tory voters,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and pressed Cameron for specific pledges on tax cuts.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He supported the introduction of <a href="/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Same-sex marriage in England">same-sex marriage</a> in England and Wales arguing that it was a way to strengthen the institution more generally.<sup id="cite_ref-Grice_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grice-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Through ConservativeHome, Montgomerie was used as an expert on internet campaigning by <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Central_Office" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative Central Office">Conservative Central Office</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Internet_television">Internet television</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tim_Montgomerie&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Internet television"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Montgomerie was a director of the internet television channel <i><a href="/wiki/18_Doughty_Street" title="18 Doughty Street">18 Doughty Street</a></i> which began broadcasting in October 2006 and went off air in November 2007. While at <i>18 Doughty Street</i>, Montgomerie hosted its 'Campaign HQ' programme, which developed the channel's Internet political advertisements after allowing viewers to vote on a choice of (usually) three different proposals. Previous adverts included attacks on taxes, state funding of political parties, and London Mayor <a href="/wiki/Ken_Livingstone" title="Ken Livingstone">Ken Livingstone</a>. The latest, "A World Without America", with an end scene depicting the <a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty" title="Statue of Liberty">Statue of Liberty</a> wearing a <a href="/wiki/Burqa" title="Burqa">burqa</a>, was co-produced by <i>18 Doughty Street</i> and the website BritainAndAmerica, and had 50,000 views within its first 24 hours of publication.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Since_2010">Since 2010</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tim_Montgomerie&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Since 2010"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tim_Montgomerie_(8).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Tim_Montgomerie_%288%29.jpg/220px-Tim_Montgomerie_%288%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Tim_Montgomerie_%288%29.jpg/330px-Tim_Montgomerie_%288%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Tim_Montgomerie_%288%29.jpg/440px-Tim_Montgomerie_%288%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736" /></a><figcaption>Tim Montgomerie in Budapest in December 2019</figcaption></figure> <p>Montgomerie continued to edit ConservativeHome alongside others including co-editor <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jonathan_Isaby&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jonathan Isaby (page does not exist)">Jonathan Isaby</a>, assistant editor Joseph Willits, deputy editor <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Barrett_(journalist)" title="Matthew Barrett (journalist)">Matthew Barrett</a>, and Isaby's replacement, former Conservative MP <a href="/wiki/Paul_Goodman_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul Goodman (politician)">Paul Goodman</a><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the <a href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2010 United Kingdom general election">2010 general election</a> Montgomerie wrote a report that was critical of David Cameron's election campaign, entitled "Falling short".<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Montgomerie has promoted the <a href="/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory" title="Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory">Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory</a> and wrote in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> in 2013, "The 20th century was far from an overwhelming victory for the right. Though revolutionary Marxism died, its fellow traveller, cultural Marxism, prospered."<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Through his prominence with ConservativeHome, Montgomerie wrote frequent articles on Conservative politics for <i>The Guardian</i> and <i>The Times</i>, and occasionally for the <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Mail" title="Daily Mail">Daily Mail</a></i>, <i>The Independent</i>, and the <i><a href="/wiki/Financial_Times" title="Financial Times">Financial Times</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In April 2011, he became a columnist for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sunday_Telegraph" title="The Sunday Telegraph">The Sunday Telegraph</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but in October of the same year, Montgomerie resigned from his column, after a series of attacks on him by the Mandrake column in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph">The Daily Telegraph</a></i>, its sister paper. Montgomerie wrote that a tweet critical of the <i>Daily Telegraph</i> editor <a href="/wiki/Tony_Gallagher_(editor)" title="Tony Gallagher (editor)">Tony Gallagher</a> had started the attacks.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Montgomerie became a columnist for <i>The Times</i> soon after.<sup id="cite_ref-theguardian1_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-theguardian1-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 2013, Montgomerie announced that in April that year he would join <i>The Times</i> as comment editor, replacing Anne Spackman, but maintained a role as an "advisor" and weekly blogger for ConservativeHome.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He founded the online magazine <i><a href="/wiki/UnHerd" title="UnHerd">UnHerd</a></i> in 2017. The site initially published conservative pieces on capitalism and in support of Brexit.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian-20231028_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-20231028-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 25 September 2018, he announced that he had left <i>UnHerd</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 2019, Montgomerie was appointed as "social justice adviser" to the Prime Minister in Number 10 Downing Street.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 31 January 2020, he said on the BBC's <i><a href="/wiki/Politics_Live" class="mw-redirect" title="Politics Live">Politics Live</a></i> that the role lasted until the <a href="/wiki/Early_Parliamentary_General_Election_Act_2019" title="Early Parliamentary General Election Act 2019">election was called in November 2019</a> and that he was now in discussions with <a href="/wiki/Boris_Johnson" title="Boris Johnson">Boris Johnson</a> regarding a new advisory role following Johnson's success in that election. By May 2020 Montgomerie had become a frequent critic of the government, in particular of <a href="/wiki/10_Downing_Street#Office_of_the_Prime_Minister" title="10 Downing Street">the Prime Minister's</a> <a href="/wiki/Senior_advisor" title="Senior advisor">Senior Adviser</a> <a href="/wiki/Dominic_Cummings" title="Dominic Cummings">Dominic Cummings</a> and the Prime Minister himself.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2020, Montgomerie was reported as saying that the British government should have a "special relationship" with <a href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungary</a> post-Brexit, saying at a meeting of the <a href="/wiki/Danube_Institute" title="Danube Institute">Danube Institute</a> that "Budapest and Hungary have been home, I think, for an awful lot of interesting early thinking on the limits of liberalism, and I think we are seeing that in the UK as well. So I hope there will be a special relationship with Hungary amongst other states."<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Montgomerie had been appointed Boris Johnson's Social Justice advisor in the September of that year and the Labour Party called for his removal from the position, accusing him of "Cosying up to a government which peddles antisemitic and Islamophobic rhetoric, attacks migrants and refugees and undermines judicial and media independence".<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the campaign for the <a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2024 United Kingdom general election">2024 general election</a>, he said that if he lived in certain constituencies, he would vote for the <a href="/wiki/Reform_UK" title="Reform UK">Reform UK</a> candidate, including <a href="/wiki/Nigel_Farage" title="Nigel Farage">Nigel Farage</a> in <a href="/wiki/Clacton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Clacton (UK Parliament constituency)">Clacton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Tice" title="Richard Tice">Richard Tice</a> in <a href="/wiki/Boston_and_Skegness_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Boston and Skegness (UK Parliament constituency)">Boston and Skegness</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In December 2024, he quit the Conservatives and joined Reform.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tim_Montgomerie&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Montgomerie is a <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tim_Montgomerie&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span 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