Nicholas James Timothy CBE (born March 1980) is a British Conservative Party politician and former political adviser, serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for West Suffolk since 2024.

[1][2] He served as Joint Downing Street Chief of Staff, alongside Fiona Hill, to Prime Minister Theresa May,[3][4][5][6] until after the 2017 general election.

Timothy has cited as his inspiration in politics the Birmingham-born Liberal Unionist politician Joseph Chamberlain, of whom he wrote a short biography for the Conservative History Group.

[4][13][14] While at the NSN he spoke in favour of ending the 50% Rule which requires oversubscribed Free Schools to allocate half of their places without reference to faith.

He warned that security experts were worried that the Chinese could use their role in the programme to build weaknesses into computer systems which would allow them to shut down Britain's energy production at will and argued that "no amount of trade and investment should justify allowing a hostile state easy access to the country's critical national infrastructure.

[19][1] Following David Cameron's resignation as Prime Minister in the wake of the Brexit referendum result, Timothy took a sabbatical from his position at the NSN to work on Theresa May's 2016 leadership campaign.

[28] He also became a business consultant, founding trustee of a new specialist maths school,[29] Chairman of the Future of Conservatism project at Onward,[30] a Senior Policy Fellow at Policy Exchange,[31] a visiting professor at Sheffield University, a visiting fellow at Wadham College, Oxford, and an adviser to the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.

[33] In February 2018, Timothy denied allegations of antisemitism[34][35] following the publication of an article of which he was the principal author that claimed the existence of a "secret plot" to stop Brexit by the Jewish philanthropist George Soros.

[37] The seat had previously been held by Dame Caroline Spelman, who opted to stand down as an MP over the "intensity of abuse arising out of Brexit".

[38] In February 2022, The New York Times released a podcast entitled "The Trojan Horse Affair" which was created by Brian Reed and Hamza Syed.

[39] Timothy and Michael Gove wrote a joint foreword for a Policy Exchange report with their own account of how hardline activists had taken over several state schools in an attempt to impose, in the words of one of the several official inquiries, an “intolerant and aggressive Islamic ethos”.