JAMES TIMPSON OBE PRISONS PROBATION PAROLE SECRETARY CABINET STALYBRIDGE HYDE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT MPs SIR KEIR STARMER's LABOUR MINISTERS AND SECRETARIES OF STATE 2024 NEW GOVERNMENT FOR KING CHARLES

James Timpson has been ennobled and will become minister of state for prisons, parole and probation.

He has been the chief executive of Timpson, the high street shoe repair and key cutting chain, since 2002. The firm is known for employing released prisoners and Mr Timpson has been chair of the Prison Reform Trust since 2016.

Timpson was born in Knutsford, Cheshire, son of John and Alex; his younger brother Edward was a Conservative MP from 2019 to 2024. He attended Uppingham School. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts in geography from Durham University before joining his family business.

Known for advocating the employment of former prisoners, he was the Chair of the Employers Forum for Reducing Re-offending (EFFRR) until 2016, and became Chair of the Prison Reform Trust that same year. He also founded the Employment Advisory Board network across the prison estate, which links prisons with employers to improve the employment opportunities for ex-offenders upon release.

In November 2018, Timpson was selected to co-chair one of five new business councils by the Prime Minister, to advise on how to create the best conditions for UK businesses after Brexit. He was the co-chair of the Small Business, Scale ups and Entrepreneurs Council, alongside Brent Hoberman and Emma Jones.

In March 2021, he was reappointed by the then Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, as trustee of the Tate for a four-year period in March 2021. He replaced Jonathon Porritt as Chancellor of Keele University in June 2022.

Timpson wrote a column on business and leadership for The Sunday Times throughout 2021, and this inspired his book The Happy Index: Lessons in Upside-Down Management, which was published in February 2024.

In February 2024, Timpson made comments suggesting only a third of prisoners should be in prison.

In July 2024, he was appointed Minister of State for Prisons, Parole and Probation in the Starmer ministry by the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer. He is due to be appointed to a life peerage. Because of this appointment, Timpson stepped down as chief executive officer of Timpson and stepped down as chair from the Prison Reform Trust.

He was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Civil Division in the Queen Elizabeth's Birthday Honours List 2011for services to training and employment for disadvantaged people. He was appointed as a deputy lieutenant (DL) of Cheshire on 11 October 2019.

FOSSIL FOOLS - Geriatric politicians with 'climate-senile' policies will find in difficult to break away from their corrupt ways, as part time politicians with two jobs. Their main job being to find paid consultancy work, rather than craft policies and create statute that works to protect our voters from lung cancer, energy shortages and a lack of affordable (sustainable) housing.

The 'zerophobics' are the undertakers of the political world, sending millions of ordinary people to an early grave, while loading us with NHS, hospital and staff costs that would not be needed if we had clean air in our cities.

Basically, the longer you are in politics, the more likely you are to be exposed to bribes, from climate deniers, mostly fossil fuel and energy companies, looking to keep on pumping toxic fumes into the atmosphere, so they can keep making money. The political undertakers are working with them to keep hospitals stocked with cancer victims, adding to the £Trillions we owe as part of the national debt. Under Boris and Rishi Sunack, pensioner's saving have halved in real terms. They are blood sucking vampires, draining what little you had saved for your retirement.

Sir Keir Starmer

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