Rick Yates

Rick Yates MP was the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the administration of Prime Minister Brian Green, Yates 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 was 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, the idea was ridiculed by Denise Riley who suggested his surname was being low down on the alphabet. Eventhough Yates said he had no children. Yates had also suggested in favour of the sacrifice to Green to meet population rises.