For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.

I have seen from my own constituency the consequences of marital breakdown. The contest was won by the then-Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Skills David Cameron. Early life
Yeo was educated at Charterhouse School before going on to Emmanuel College at Cambridge University where he read History and graduated in 1968.

He also served in the Shadow Cabinet from 2001 to 2005 under Conservative Party leaders Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard. Yeo served as the Minister for the Environment and Countryside from 1992 to 1993 in the government of Prime Minister John Major.