Rick Yates

Rick Yates MP was the Home Secretary in the British Government in the administration of Prime Minister Brian Green; Yates also had control over John Frobisher who worked within Yates' department. Yates was summoned to a meeting of COBRA during Day Four of the 456 incident to discuss the 456's demands for 10% of the child population of Earth. Yates at first asked for 60 children to be sacrificed as a small compromise offer; however when the 456 rejected it; Yates then suggested alphabetical order for the random selection of which 10% would be selected from Britain; however the idea was ridiculed by Denise Riley who suggested his surname as being low down on the alphabet; even though Yates said he had no children. Yates had also suggested in favour of the sacrifice to Green to meet population rises.

Yates was also heard in Day One and Day Two demanding to talk to John Frobisher.

Trivia

 * Yates was portrayed by Nicholas Briggs, the well known voice artist of the Daleks, Cybermen and more.