Steve Baker (UK politician)
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Steve Baker MP |
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Member of Parliament for Wycombe |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Paul Goodman |
| Majority | 14,856 (28.9%) |
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Steven John Baker 6 June 1971 St Austell, Cornwall, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
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University of Southampton (BEng) University of Oxford (MSc) |
| Website |
www Profile |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Service/branch | Royal Air Force |
| Years of service | 1989–1999 |
| Rank | Flight Lieutenant |
Steven John Baker (born 6 June 1971) is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wycombe, having been elected in the 2010 general election. He has been a member of the executive of the 1922 Committee since May 2012.
Baker served in the Royal Air Force as an aerospace engineer from 1989–99. After leaving the RAF, he studied for a postgraduate degree in Computer Science at the University of Oxford, later becoming a software engineer and consultant. He chose to enter politics after witnessing the financial crisis in 2008, having worked in the IT department at Lehman Brothers in Canary Wharf. He was elected MP for Wycombe in 2010.
Since entering Parliament, he has campaigned against bail-outs for the financial sector and central banking, against the construction of High Speed 2, and against British membership of the European Union. In June 2015, he became co-chairman of Conservatives for Britain, a campaigning organisation formed of eurosceptic MPs, alongside Conservative MEP David Campbell Bannerman.
He co-founded The Cobden Centre, on which he sits on the advisory board. He established and chairs the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on Economics, Money and Banking and is vice-chair of the APPG for Aerospace. He sits on the Treasury Select Committee.
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