Norman Baker

Norman Baker
Baker in 2010
Minister of State for Crime Prevention
In office
7 October 2013 – 3 November 2014
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Preceded byJeremy Browne
Succeeded byLynne Featherstone
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport
In office
15 May 2010 – 7 October 2013
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Preceded byPaul Clark
Succeeded byRobert Goodwill
Member of Parliament
for Lewes
In office
1 May 1997 – 30 March 2015
Preceded byTim Rathbone
Succeeded byMaria Caulfield
Personal details
Born (1957-07-26) 26 July 1957 (age 67)
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
NationalityBritish
Political partyLiberal Democrat
Alma materRoyal Holloway, University of London

Norman John Baker (born 26 July 1957) is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewes in East Sussex from the 1997 general election until his defeat in 2015.

In May 2010 he was appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Transport. On 7 October 2013, Baker was promoted to Minister of State at the Home Office in the coalition government of 2010–15.[1] He resigned from his role at the Home Office on 3 November 2014.[2]

  1. ^ Rowena Mason Norman Baker could be thorn in Theresa May's side at Home Office Archived 18 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine, The Guardian (7 October 2013)/
  2. ^ "Norman Baker: I resign - and it's Theresa May's fault". The Independent. 3 November 2014. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 5 October 2019.

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