Rick Yates

Rick Yates MP was the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary in the administration of Prime Minister Brian Green in 2009.

Yates was summoned to a meeting of COBRA on Day Four of the 456 incident to discuss the 456's demands for 10% of the children on Earth. Yates was first asked for sixty children to be sacrificed as a compromise offer. When the 456 rejected it, Yates suggested alphabetical order for the random 10% from Britain. The idea was ridiculed by the Home Secretary Denise Riley, who suggested he favoured this idea because his surname was near the end of the alphabet. Yates said that he had no children. He also spoke in favour of the sacrifice to Green as a response to meet population rises. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Four, TV: Children of Earth: Day Five)

Behind the scenes
Yates was played by Nicholas Briggs, making his on-screen debut in an official Doctor Who-related production. He has many other related credits as actor, writer, director and producer in Expanded Universe media and as the voice of the Daleks and other popular monsters.