Tim Montgomerie founded ConservativeHomeUK on Easter Monday, 2005, with the aims of championing grassroots party members and advocating a balanced, authentic conservatism.

He is a contributing editor to ConservativeHome USA and from the UK timezone helps prepare the newslinks that are posted here at 6.30am EDT each and every day. He lives in the English cathedral city of Salisbury.

He was an economist at the Bank of England from 1992 until 1998; launched and ran the Conservative Christian Fellowship from 1990 until 2003 (first in his spare time and then full-time); has written speeches for Tory leaders William Hague and Iain Duncan Smith; was co-founder of the Centre for Social Justice; and is a regular contributor to a number of British newspapers, especially the London Times.

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