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Matt Warman

Matt Warman

British Conservative politician

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Matthew Robert Warman (born 1 September 1981) is a British Conservative Party politician and former journalist who served as Minister of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from July to September 2022.[1][2] He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Boston and Skegness since May 2015[3] and was an Assistant Government Whip from April 2019 to July 2019. He served as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital Infrastructure from July 2019 to September 2021.[4]

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Early life and career

Matthew Warman was born in Enfield, London, and was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Elstree, Hertfordshire. He then studied English at Durham University. Whilst at university, he was Treasurer of Durham Student Theatre for the 2002/2003 academic year.[5]

Warman worked for The Daily Telegraph from 1999 until 2015, focusing on technology, leading coverage of Facebook, Google and Apple, and covering the launch of products including iPhones, BBC iPlayer and the Apple Watch, as well as interviewing key figures including the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, and Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web.[6]

Parliamentary career

At the 2015 general election, Warman was elected to Parliament as MP for Boston and Skegness with 43.8% of the vote and a majority of 4,336.[7][8][9][10]

Warman was a member of the Science and Technology Select Committee,[11] and a former co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Broadband and Digital Communication and Pictfor (The Parliamentary Internet, Communications and Technology Forum).

Warman was opposed to Brexit prior to the 2016 referendum.[12] However, his constituency voted with the highest proportion of any constituency in the UK to leave, with 75.6% of voters casting their vote to leave. Despite his previous opposition, after the referendum he was listed as a supporter of pro-Brexit lobby group Leave Means Leave.[13]

At the snap 2017 general election, Warman was re-elected as MP for Boston and Skegness with an increased vote share of 63.6% and an increased majority of 16,572.[14][15]

Warman became a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 26 July 2019,[16] serving as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital Infrastructure. He was replaced on 16 September 2021 by Chris Philp.[4]

At the 2019 general election, Warman was again re-elected with an increased vote share of 76.7% and an increased majority of 25,621.[17][18]

He was made Minister of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in July 2022 as part of the caretaker government by outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson.[1]

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    "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
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    Drury, Phil (9 April 2015). "Statement of persons nominated". Boston Borough Council. Archived from the original on 15 April 2015. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
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    Drury, Phil (12 May 2015). "Declaration of result of poll". Boston Borough Council. Archived from the original on 27 April 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
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    "GENERAL ELECTION 2017: Candidates for Boston and Skegness confirmed". Boston Standard. 11 May 2017. Archived from the original on 11 May 2017.
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    "These New Conservative Party Ministers Have Just Been Revealed". HuffPost UK. 26 July 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
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    "Boston & Skegness parliamentary constituency - Election 2019". BBC News. Archived from the original on 13 January 2020. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
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    Drury, Phil (14 November 2019). "Statement of Persons Nominated, Notice of Poll and Situation of Polling Stations" (PDF). Boston Borough Council. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 January 2020. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
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