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