Nicholas Boles

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Nicholas Boles (2016)

Nicholas Edward Coleridge Boles (born November 2, 1965 ) is a British politician and former House of Commons who was a member of the Conservative Party until March 2019 .

Life

Boles attended Winchester College and studied at Magdalen College , Oxford and Harvard University . In 2002, Boles founded Policy Exchange . Boles has been a Member of the House of Commons since May 2010, representing the constituency of Grantham and Stamford . From 2012 to 2016 he was a State Secretary in the Ministry of Municipalities and Local Self-Government and then from 2014 as Minister of State in the Ministry of Economic Affairs in the government of David Cameron .

On March 16, 2019, Boles resigned from his local Conservative Association after the latter criticized him for rejecting a no-deal Brexit and threatened not to run him again as a candidate.

On April 1, 2019, Boles said in the parliamentary debate on Brexit that he regretted that his party's inability to compromise meant that he could no longer sit as a member of the Conservative Parliament. On his website, Boles announced that he was resigning from the Conservative Party with immediate effect and would henceforth sit in parliament as an "Independent Progressive Conservative". Just two weeks later he announced that he would not run again in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

Boles lives with his partner in Lincolnshire .

Works (selection)

  • Which Way's Up? The future for Coalition Britain and how to get there. Biteback 2010, ISBN 1-84954-063-2 .
  • with Edward Vaizey, Michael Gove: A blue tomorrow. Politico's Pub 2001, ISBN 978-1-84275-027-8 .

Web links

Commons : Nicholas Boles  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nick Boles: Tory MP quits local party over Brexit . March 16, 2019. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
  2. ↑ [1] from 10:10 pm local time of the debate recording; accessed on April 2, 2019.
  3. ↑ Via Twitter quote: “I am resigning the Conservative whip with immediate effect. The Conservative Party has shown itself to be incapable of compromise so I will sit as an Independent Progressive Conservative. "(Accessed April 2, 2019)
  4. ↑ PoliticsHome.com: Nick Boles: “This is my swansong. I'm on my way out ”. April 15, 2019, accessed October 12, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Telegraph: Gay Tory who aims to modernize party
personal data
SURNAME Boles, Nicholas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boles, Nicholas Edward Coleridge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (Conservative Party)
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1965