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Nicholas Boles

Nick Boles
MP
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Minister of State for Skills
In office
14 July 2014 – 13 July 2016
Prime Minister David Cameron
Preceded by Matthew Hancock
Succeeded by Robert Halfon
Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
In office
5 September 2012 – 14 July 2014
Prime Minister David Cameron
Preceded by Greg Clark (Minister of State)
Succeeded by Penny Mordaunt
Member of Parliament
for Grantham and Stamford
Assumed office
6 May 2010
Preceded by Quentin Davies
Majority 18,989 (35.3%)
Personal details
Born Nicholas Edward Coleridge Boles
(1965-11-02) 2 November 1965 (age 51)
Political party Conservative
Alma mater Magdalen College, Oxford
Harvard University
Website Official website

Nicholas Edward Coleridge Boles (born 2 November 1965) is a British Conservative Party politician who is the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Grantham and Stamford constituency in Lincolnshire. Boles served as Minister of State for Skills from 2014 to 2016. Before entering Parliament he was a Westminster City councillor and the Director of Policy Exchange, a think tank based in Westminster.

Boles is the son of Sir Jack Boles, the Head of the National Trust from 1975 to 1983, and the great-nephew of Conservative MP Dennis Boles.

Boles was a scholar at Winchester College before studying PPE at Magdalen College, Oxford, then winning a Kennedy Scholarship to study for a Master's in Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

In 1995, he founded a small DIY supply business, Longwall Holdings Limited, where he is non-executive chairman, having served as the chief executive until 2000. In 1998, he was elected to Westminster City Council for the West End ward comprising Mayfair and Soho. He was chairman of the Housing Committee from 1999 to 2001, before stepping down in 2002. During much of this time, Boles shared a flat with fellow Conservative activists Michael Gove and Ivan Massow.


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