Steve Baker (politician)
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Steven John Baker (born 6 June 1971) is a British politician serving as Minister of State for Northern Ireland since 2022 and Minister of State at the Cabinet Office since 2024.[1] He is a former Royal Air Force engineer, consultant and bank worker. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wycombe in Buckinghamshire since 2010.[2][3] Baker was the chair of the European Research Group (ERG) from 2016 to 2017 and from 2019 to 2020.[4]
Steve Baker | |
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Minister of State in the Cabinet Office | |
Assumed office 7 February 2024 | |
Prime Minister | Rishi Sunak |
Preceded by | Office established |
Minister of State for Northern Ireland | |
Assumed office 7 September 2022 | |
Prime Minister | Liz Truss Rishi Sunak |
Preceded by | Conor Burns |
Deputy Chair of the COVID Recovery Group | |
In office 10 November 2020 – 7 September 2022 | |
Prime Minister | Boris Johnson Liz Truss |
Chairman | Mark Harper |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Office abolished |
Chair of the European Research Group | |
In office 3 September 2019 – 25 February 2020 | |
Deputy | Mark Francois Andrea Jenkyns |
Leader | Boris Johnson |
Preceded by | Jacob Rees-Mogg |
Succeeded by | Mark Francois |
In office 20 November 2016 – 13 June 2017 | |
Deputy | Suella Braverman Michael Tomlinson |
Leader | Theresa May |
Preceded by | Chris Heaton-Harris |
Succeeded by | Suella Braverman |
Deputy Chair of the European Research Group | |
In office 9 July 2018 – 3 September 2019 | |
Leader | Theresa May Boris Johnson |
Chairman | Jacob Rees-Mogg |
Preceded by | Suella Braverman (2017) |
Succeeded by | Andrea Jenkyns |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union | |
In office 13 June 2017 – 9 July 2018 | |
Prime Minister | Theresa May |
Preceded by | The Lord Bridges of Headley |
Succeeded by | Chris Heaton-Harris |
Member of Parliament for Wycombe | |
Assumed office 6 May 2010 | |
Preceded by | Paul Goodman |
Majority | 4,214 (7.7%) |
Personal details | |
Born | Steven John Baker (1971-06-06) 6 June 1971 (age 52) St Austell, Cornwall, England |
Political party | Conservative |
Alma mater | University of Southampton St Cross College, Oxford |
Signature | |
Website | Official website Commons website |
Military career | |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ | Royal Air Force |
Years of service | 1989–1999 |
Rank | Flight lieutenant |
Service number | 5206370Q |
In June 2015 he became co-chair of Conservatives for Britain, a campaigning organisation formed of Eurosceptic MPs.[5] He co-founded The Cobden Centre and is a former member of its advisory board. He established and chairs the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on Economics, Money and Banking. He was chair of the ERG, a pro-Brexit group of Conservative MPs, from 20 November 2016 until his promotion to ministerial office at the Department for Exiting the European Union on 13 June 2017, but resigned from his office on 9 July 2018 following the resignation of David Davis over concerns with the government's strategy on Brexit.[6][7] That same day, Jacob Rees-Mogg appointed Baker as the deputy chair and de facto whip[8][9][10][11] of the ERG, alongside Mark Francois. In late 2021, Baker announced the campaign group Conservative Way Forward will be relaunched in 2022,[12] with him as its new chairman.[13]