Catherine Morton invites you and friends to join her for a Conservative Christmas Party at Flore Fields House on Friday 8th December 2017 at 7pm.
We are delighted to be hosting Mr Ed Young, former Parliamentary Candidate for York Central at this year's Christmas Party.
Ed has 10 years of experience working with Conservative Party Leadership which combined with his passion for Conservative History will make him a very unique speaker. I have no doubt that we can look forward to a really insightful commentary.
You can read Ed's full biography below and purchase your tickets by clicking the link at the bottom.
EDWARD YOUNG
At the 2017 General Election, Ed stood as the Conservative Candidate for York Central. Ed grew up in York and had served as Head Chorister in York Minister during the 1990s. Although unsuccessful at the election, Ed won more Conservative votes than at any election in York since 1992.
This was the first time Ed had stood for election, and came after a decade of involvement with the Conservative Party. From 2007 to 2012, Ed spent five years working for the Party, first as an Assistant Private Secretary and Speechwriter for David Cameron, then as Chief of Staff to the Party Chairman and as a political adviser to the 2011 No to AV campaign.
In 2012, Ed moved into the private sector, working initially for the financial public relations firm, Brunswick, where his clients included HSBC, GSK, Facebook, Kingfisher and Novo Nordisk. After two years at Brunswick, Ed moved in-house to work directly for one of his main clients – Tesco. Ed has worked for Tesco ever since.
Shortly after Ed joined Tesco in 2014, the business went through its worst crisis in a century following a series of profit warnings and in the wake of an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office. Ed served on the Transformation Leadership Team which helped to lead the recovery, and has worked in a number of leadership roles in the Group Communications team over the last three and a half years.
Although Ed is passionate about business and retail, his first love is history. After gaining a firstclass degree in History from Clare College, Cambridge, Ed won a scholarship to study as a Mellon Scholar at Yale University. This led to a long-standing literary partnership with former Foreign Secretary, Douglas Hurd, which included a biography of Sir Robert Peel and a history of British Foreign Secretaries. In 2013, their biography of Disraeli was a Sunday Times bestseller and was long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize. It was widely praised by critics; Boris Johnson wrote that he “snorted it up in one go.” Ed is currently working on a life of Lord Randolph Churchill and a short book on speeches and speechwriting.
Edward is a proud Yorkshireman but crossed one of the nation’s great divides when he married Becky, a Lancastrian, in 2011. Today they split their time between London and seeing their families in Buckinghamshire and Yorkshire.