Michael Young
- For the Major League Baseball player, Michael Young, see Michael Young (baseball player).
During an active life he founded or helped found a remarkable number of socially useful organizations. These include the Consumers' Association and the Open University. He helped bring the Labour Party Government led by Clement Atlee into office by writing Labour's 1945 manifesto. He was a thinker but also acted.
One of Young's sons, Toby, is an established celebrity journalist whose style of obnoxious wit has earned him almost as many enemies as admirers. His hugely successful book, a self-mocking tome appropriately titled How To Lose Friends and Alienate People, is the quite hilarious tale of how he was set to take New YorkÃÂs glossy publishing industry by storm, only to see him fail on the grounds of his satirical way of thinking towards the high society.
| Preceded by: Tom King | Secretary of State for Employment 1985-1987 | Followed by: Norman Fowler |