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'''Rick Yates''' MP was the [[Deputy Prime Minister]] and [[Foreign Secretary]] in the administration of [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Brian Green]] in [[2009]]. | '''Rick Yates''' MP was the [[Deputy Prime Minister]] and [[Foreign Secretary]] in the administration of [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|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. | 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. | ||
When the 456 made their initial demand, a desperate Yates tried to advocate to Green that if they could spin the population loss "in the right way", it could be presented as a good thing that slowed down the population growth. He later jumped on the idea of blaming the 456 for the missing children as a cover story, willing to deflect all blame to the aliens, and was contemptuous of [[Lois Habiba]] speaking out. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Four (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Four]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Five (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Five]]'') | When the 456 made their initial demand, a desperate Yates tried to advocate to Green that if they could spin the population loss "in the right way", it could be presented as a good thing that slowed down the population growth. He later jumped on the idea of blaming the 456 for the missing children as a cover story, willing to deflect all blame to the aliens, and was contemptuous of [[Lois Habiba]] speaking out. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Four (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Four]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Five (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Five]]'') | ||
