Rick Yates

Rick Yates MP was the Chancellor of the Exchequer 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.

	Chancellor of the Exchequer
	Earth
	TW: Day Four
	[[actor::Nicholas Briggs|Nicholas Briggs]]

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.