Matt Warman

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]

For the New Zealander rock musician named Matt Warman, see Midnight Youth.

Matthew Warman
MP
Official portrait, 2020
Minister of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
In office
7 July 2022 – 7 September 2022
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byJulia Lopez
Succeeded byJulia Lopez
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital Infrastructure
In office
26 July 2019 – 16 September 2021
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byMargot James
Succeeded byChris Philp
Member of Parliament
for Boston and Skegness
Assumed office
7 May 2015
Preceded byMark Simmonds
Majority25,621 (61.4%)
Personal details
Born (1981-09-01) 1 September 1981
Enfield, London, England
Political partyConservative
Alma materDurham University

Early life

Warman was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and Durham University, receiving a degree in English. He was Treasurer of Durham Student Theatre for the 2002/2003 academic year.[5]

Career

Warman worked for The Daily Telegraph from 1999 until 2015, focusing for most of the period 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]

In Parliament, Warman was a member of the Science and Technology Select Committee,[7] 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.[8] 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. The wider county of Lincolnshire is a heavily Leave-supporting area. Despite his previous opposition, after the referendum he was listed as a supporter of pro-Brexit lobby group Leave Means Leave.[9]

Warman became an Assistant Government Whip on 23 April 2019.

Warman became a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 26 July 2019,[10] serving as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital Infrastructure. He was replaced on 16 September 2021 by Chris Philp.[4]

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]

References
  1. "Ministerial appointments: July 2022". GOV.UK. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  2. "Matt Warman MP". GOV.UK. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  3. "Boston & Skegness parliamentary constituency". Election 2015. BBC News. Archived from the original on 8 May 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  4. "Ministerial appointments: September 2021". GOV.UK. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
  5. "The Exec: 2002/3". Durham Student Theatre (via Internet Wayback Machine). 2003. Archived from the original on 24 March 2003. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  6. "About |". www.mattwarman.co.uk. Archived from the original on 28 June 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  7. "Matt Warman MP". UK Parliament. Archived from the original on 8 July 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  8. Goodenough, Tom (16 February 2016). "Which Tory MPs back Brexit, who doesn't and who is still on the fence?". The Spectator. Archived from the original on 3 February 2017. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
  9. "Co-Chairmen – Political Advisory Board – Supporters". Leave Means Leave. Archived from the original on 24 October 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  10. "These New Conservative Party Ministers Have Just Been Revealed". HuffPost UK. 26 July 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
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