Steve Baker (politician)

**Steven John Baker** (born 6 June 1971) is a British Conservative Party politician and former Royal Air Force engineer, consultant and bank worker. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wycombe, being in the 2010 general election.

In June 2015 he became co-chairman of Conservatives for Britain.

He co-founded The Cobden Centre. He was Chair of the European Research Group (ERG), a pro-Brexit group of Conservative MPs, until his promotion to ministerial office at the Department for Exiting the European Union on 13 June 2017, but resigned from his office on 9 July 2018 following the resignation of David Davis over concerns with the Government strategy on Brexit.

In September 2022, Baker was picked as Minister of State for Northern Ireland by Prime Minister Liz Truss.

## Infobox (military person)

- **embed**: yes
- **serviceyears**: 1989–1999
- **rank**: Flight lieutenant
- **servicenumber**: 5206370Q


## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Steve Baker
- **honorific-suffix**: Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts, FRSA Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), MP
- **image**: Official portrait of Mr Steve Baker MP crop 2.jpg
- **caption**: Official portrait, 2020
- **office**: Minister of State for Northern Ireland
- **term start**: 7 September 2022
- **term end**: 25 October 2022
- **predecessor**: Conor Burns
- **office1**: Deputy Chair of the COVID Recovery Group
- **term start1**: 10 November 2020
- **predecessor1**: _Position established_
- **term start2**: 3 September 2019
- **term end2**: 25 February 2020
- **leader2**: Boris Johnson
- **deputy2**: Mark Francois
Andrea Jenkyns
- **predecessor2**: Jacob Rees-Mogg
- **successor2**: Mark Francois
- **leader3**: Theresa May
- **term start3**: 20 November 2016
- **term end3**: 13 June 2017
- **predecessor3**: Chris Heaton-Harris
- **successor3**: Suella Braverman
- **office4**: Deputy Chair of the European Research Group
- **alongside4**: Mark Francois
- **term start4**: 9 July 2018
- **term end4**: 3 September 2019
- **predecessor4**: Suella Braverman
- **successor4**: Andrea Jenkyns
- **office5**: Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union#List of Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State for Exiting the European Union, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union
- **term start5**: 13 June 2017
- **term end5**: 9 July 2018
- **predecessor5**: George Bridges, Baron Bridges of Headley, The Lord Bridges of Headley
- **successor5**: Chris Heaton-Harris
- **birth name**: Steven John Baker
- **birth place**: St Austell, Cornwall, England
- **party**: Conservative Party (UK), Conservative
- **alma mater**: University of Southampton
St Cross College, Oxford
- **website**:

- **office6**: Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament
for Wycombe (UK Parliament constituency), Wycombe
- **office2**: Chair of the European Research Group
- **term start6**: 6 May 2010
- **predecessor6**: Paul Goodman (politician), Paul Goodman
- **1namedata1**: Mark Harper
- **1blankname1**: Chairman
- **1blankname4**: Chairman
- **1namedata4**: Jacob Rees-Mogg
- **leader4**: Theresa May
Boris Johnson
- **primeminister**: Liz Truss
- **primeminister5**: Theresa May
- **deputy3**: Suella Braverman
- **majority6**: 4,214 (7.7%)