Steve Double
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Steve Double MP |
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Member of Parliament for St Austell and Newquay |
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Assumed office 8 May 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Steve Gilbert |
| Majority | 8,173 (16.2%) |
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| Born | 19 December 1966 |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Website | Official website |
Stephen Daniel Double (born 19 December 1966) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for St Austell and Newquay in the 2015 general election.
Double served on Cornwall Council and as a town councillor and deputy mayor of St Austell before his selection as Conservative candidate for St Austell and Newquay in the general election.
He is a member of the Petitions Committee.
Double supported the "Leave" campaign in the 2016 European Union membership referendum.
As of June 2015 Double was one of 125 MPs who employed a member of their family; he was reported to have employed his wife as a senior caseworker and diary secretary.
In June 2016 the MP, who is an evangelical Christian, admitted an extra-marital affair with a married 26-year-old aide. Double had reportedly kept this secret from his wife of 30 years. The BBC later reported that Double's constituency party deputy chairman had resigned, suggesting Double, who had claimed to promote family life, should do the same. They also examined the public's changing view of morality and quoted political historian Matt Cole who said that whilst the public was now more tolerant of infidelity, it did object to hypocrisy.
In February 2017 Double participated in a debate in London about marriage, stating that he was "surprised... to learn that last year the Government spent more money on repairing cathedrals than on supporting marriage and family relationships." He called on the government to "put more resources into supporting marriage".
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