Steve Baker Biography
Steve Baker (born Steven John Baker) is a British politician and a former Royal Air Force engineer, consultant, and bank worker, who served as chair of the European Research Group (ERG) from 2016 to 2017 and 2019 to 2020.
Steve Baker Age
Baker is 50 years old as of 2021, he was born on 6 June 1971, in St Austell, United Kingdom, United States. He celebrates his birthday on 6 June every year and his birth sign is Gemini.
Steve Baker Height and Weight
Baker stands at an average height. He appears to be quite tall in stature if his photos, relative to his surroundings, are anything to go by. However, details regarding his actual height and other body measurements are currently not publicly available. We will update this section when the information is available.
Steve Baker Education
He attended Poltair School and St Austell Sixth Form College before attending the University of Southampton and earning a BEng in Aerospace Engineering. He went on to study at St Cross College in Oxford, where he received an MSc in Computation.
Steve Baker Family, Parents and Siblings
Baker was born and raised by his parents in St Austell in Cornwall. Our efforts to find out more about his family came to no avail as no such information is publicly available. Thus, the identity of Baker’s parents is still unclear. It is also not known if he has any siblings. We will update this section once this information is available.
Steve Baker Wife
Steve Baker is married to Beth (Julia Elizabeth), a former RAF medical officer. He is a devout evangelical Christian who attends a local church. His hobbies include skydiving and advanced motorcycle riding. He is a skilled driver who has completed the High-Performance Course. He is a Royal Society of Arts Fellow.
Steve Baker Salary
Details about Baker’s salary are not yet disclosed. However, information about how much he makes will be updated as soon as it is available.
Steve Baker Net Worth
Baker’s net worth is publicly not available. His primary source of income is his career as a Politician. Through his various sources of income, we believe that Baker has been able to accumulate a good net worth but prefers to keep it private. We will update this section once this information is available.
Steve Baker Measurements and Facts
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Steve Baker Wiki
- Full Names: Steven John Baker
- Popular As: Baker
- Gender: Male
- Occupation / Profession: Politician
- Nationality: British
- Race / Ethnicity: White
- Religion: Not Known
- Sexual Orientation: Straight
Steve Baker Birthday
- Age / How Old?: 50 (2021)
- Zodiac Sign: Gemini
- Date of Birth: 6 June 1971
- Place of Birth: St Austell in Cornwall
- Birthday: June 6th
Steve Baker Body Measurements
- Body Measurements: Not Available
- Height / How Tall?: Not Known
- Weight: Not Known
- Eye Color: Brown
- Hair Color: Brown
- Shoe Size: Not Available
- Dress Size: Not Available
- Chest Size: Not Available
- Waist Size: Not Available
- Biceps Size: Not Available
Steve Baker Family and Relationship
- Father (Dad): Not Known
- Mother: Not Known
- Siblings (Brothers and Sisters): Not Known
- Marital Status: Married
- Wife/Spouse: Beth (Julia Elizabeth)
- Children: Not Available
Steve Baker Net Worth and Salary
- Net Worth: Under Review
- Salary: Under Review
- Source of Income: Politician
Steve Baker Career
Baker joined the Royal Air Force as an engineer on 3 September 1989 and was promoted to Engineering Officer with the rank of pilot officer on 15 July 1992. In 1993, he was promoted to flying officer, and in 1996, to flight lieutenant. Baker remained in that latter rank when he retired from the RAF on August 1, 1999, at his own request.
Later in his career, he worked as a consultant software engineer and manager. From 2000 to 2001, he was the head of client services at DecisionSoft Ltd (now CoreFiling) in Oxford. In 2002, he was named Chief Technical Officer at BASDA Ltd, Great Missenden, a position he held until 2007. He was the director of product development at CoreFiling Ltd. for a year beginning in 2005.
He was the chief architect of global financing and asset service platforms at Lehman Brothers from 2006 to 2008. He has been principal of Ambriel Consulting Ltd since 2001. He is a founding member of The Cobden Centre, an educational charity promoting Austrian economics.
Parliamentary career
Baker was chosen as the Conservative candidate for Wycombe on October 31, 2009, after former Conservative MP Paul Goodman resigned; it was Baker’s first election bid. Baker was the Conservative Party’s candidate for the seat. He received 23,423 votes, giving him a vote share of 48.6 percent, which was higher than Goodman’s 42.4 percent and 45.8 percent in the 2001 and 2005 general elections, respectively.
He was re-elected in both the 2015 and 2017 general elections. Baker’s majority was reduced to 6,500 votes in the 2017 election, with Labour receiving 37.7 percent of the vote.
Wycombe is now classified as a marginal seat, and despite being ranked 43 on Labour’s list of target seats, requiring a 6.15 percent swing for Labour to win, Baker retained the seat with a reduced majority in the 2019 general election. Baker was named one of the Conservative Party’s top ten most rebellious MPs in the 2010 election.
On ConservativeHome, he was named “Newcomer of the Year.” In January 2011, he was named the most authoritative Member of Parliament on Twitter. Baker initiated an adjournment debate in March 2011 alleging malicious prosecution of an operator of an independent mental health unit. Solicitor General Edward Garnier eventually apologized.
Baker sparked outrage that year when he was one of three Conservative MPs who went on a luxury trip to Equatorial Guinea funded by the state government through a trust-based in Malta. In contrast to Amnesty International, which had reported repeated incidents of torture in the country, they reported at the end of the trip that human rights violations in the country were “trivial.”
Baker has advocated for banking reform, urging banks to re-adopt Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) to account for devalued loans as well as failed ones; in May 2011, he calculated that using IFRS instead of GAAP overstated Royal Bank of Scotland’s balance sheet by £25 billion.
He introduced the Ten Minute Rule Bill in order to ‘bring casino banking into the light’ by changing the rules under which banks account for derivatives. On May 16, 2012, he was elected to the executive of the 1922 Committee, stating that he was “tired of factionalism” and that he wanted to “stand as neither a modernizing 301 candidate nor a traditionalist.”
Baker was nominated for the Grassroot Diplomat Initiative Award in 2015 for founding the Cobden Centre, and his name continues to appear in the Grassroot Diplomat Who’s Who publication. The Unite Union expressed concern in 2017 that Baker had lobbied for the deregulation of white asbestos.
Baker asked the Work and Pensions Secretary in a series of parliamentary questions in 2010: “If he will bring forward proposals to distinguish the white form of asbestos from the blue and brown forms of that substance,” as well as “If he will commission an inquiry into the appropriateness of the health and safety precautions in place in respect of asbestos cement.”
As a minister in the Department for Exiting the European Union, he was forced to apologize in February 2018 after falsely claiming that civil servants had created negative economic models to influence policy.
Baker confirmed a claim made by Eurosceptic backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg that Charles Grant, Director of the Centre for European Reform, had reported that Treasury officials “had deliberately developed a model to show that all options other than staying in the customs union were bad and that officials intended to use this to influence policy.”
The audio from the event in question then surfaced, revealing that Grant had not made the comments attributed to him. By the time Prospect magazine released the audio, the Prime Minister’s spokesman had already backed Baker’s claims. Baker made a “genuine mistake,” according to the spokesman.
On 8 July 2018, Baker resigned following the resignation of the Brexit Secretary, David Davis after working on a Brexit white paper which Baker said “did not accord with what was put to the cabinet” a few days earlier.
Baker submitted a letter of no confidence in Theresa May’s leadership on October 22, 2018, over her Brexit Withdrawal Agreement proposals, stating that he had become convinced that “separating the person from the policy” was impossible. Baker had told fellow European Research Group members a few days earlier than they were “pretty close” to getting the 48 letters needed to trigger a motion of no confidence in Theresa May’s leadership, and that they were “pretty close” to getting them “with a dozen more probables on top.” Baker has served on the Transport and Treasury Committees in the House of Commons.
Baker is a member of the Air League’s council. He called for Dominic Cummings’ resignation in May 2020. He is a member of the COVID Recovery Group’s steering committee, a group of Conservative MPs who opposed the UK government’s December 2020 lockdown. The Telegraph described them as a “echo” of the Brexiteer European Research Group (ERG) and a backbench Conservative response to Nigel Farage’s anti-lockdown Reform UK party.
Political positions
Some commentators, such as The Guardian’s Ian Birrell, believe Baker is on the Conservative Party’s right wing. According to the Associated Press, he is a libertarian. He belongs to the socially conservative Cornerstone Group. His political inspiration is the Liberal Richard Cobden, who founded the Cobden Centre with the motto “Peace will come to earth when people have more to do with each other and governments have less.”
He considers himself a born-again Christian. Baker was a pro-Brexit campaigner both before and during the 2016 referendum. He claims he joined the Conservative Party with the express purpose of campaigning for the UK to leave the EU.
Until becoming a minister, he chaired Conservatives for Britain, a predecessor group to the official Vote Leave campaign, and the Eurosceptic European Research Group. Before resigning, he was described as “the most doctrinaire Leaver inside government and one of the few sincere advocates for a no-deal Brexit on the government payroll” by the New Statesman.
In 2010, he stated at a meeting of the Libertarian Alliance that he believed “the European Union needs to be completely dismantled,” calling it “an impediment to… free trade and peace among all the nations of Europe as well as the world.”
Baker believes Brexit provides an opportunity for more free trade outside of the EU, but he also supports protectionism against China. Baker referred to himself as “the hard man of Brexit” in an interview with Sky News following a Brexit debate in April 2019. Baker has advocated for the return of the gold standard and is a member of the Austrian School of Economics.
In 2011, he argued that quantitative easing policies would exacerbate the crisis. He has expressed skepticism about the precise extent of human influence on climate change, stating in 2010 that science appears to be subject to uncertainties and that bad economics pose a greater threat to civilisation than climate change.
Baker voted against the party Whip in 2010 to oppose the construction of the High Speed 2 rail line, despite the fact that the line did not pass through his own constituency, arguing that the entire plan should be scrapped. He is a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which has previously violated Charity Commission rules on impartiality in its climate change coverage.
Baker wants to reform Early Day Motions (EDMs), possibly replacing them with “Members’ Motions,” on the grounds that EDMs “are used to publicise the views of individual MPs,” whereas a system like “Members’ Motions” could be “debated by the House.”
Baker voted against the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, calling for marriage to be denationalized. He argued that the current situation risks infringing on the religious and LGBT communities’ freedoms, and that private individuals, not the state, should define the term marriage.
Baker proposed reforming the Public Health Act legislation in February 2021 to “prevent ministers [from] imposing job-destroying restrictions without warning or scrutiny” in light of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, to ensure that economists have a share of seats on the advisory board where “decisions on social restrictions are made,” and to draw inspiration for his proposed monthly sunset clauses from the Civil Contingencies Act.
Frequently Asked Questions About Steve Baker
Who is Steve Baker?
Steve Baker is a British politician and a former Royal Air Force engineer, consultant, and bank worker, who served as chair of the European Research Group (ERG) from 2016 to 2017 and 2019 to 2020.
How old is Steve Baker?
Baker is an American national born on 6 June 1971, in St Austell in Cornwall.
How tall is Steve Baker?
Baker stands at an average height, he has not shared his height with the public. His height will be listed once we have it from a credible source.
Is Steve Baker married?
Steve Baker is married to Beth (Julia Elizabeth), a former RAF medical officer. He is a devout evangelical Christian who attends a local church. His hobbies include skydiving and advanced motorcycle riding. He is a skilled driver who has completed the High-Performance Course. He is a Royal Society of Arts Fellow.
How much is Steve Baker worth?
Baker’s net worth is publicly not available. His primary source of income is his career as a Politician. Through his various sources of income, we believe that Baker has been able to accumulate a good net worth but prefers to keep it private. We will update this section once this information is available.
How much does Steve Baker make?
Details about Baker’s salary are not yet disclosed. However, information about how much he makes will be updated as soon as it is available.
Where does Baker live?
Because of security reasons, Baker has not shared his precise location of residence. We will update this information if we get the location and images of his house.
Is Baker dead or alive?
Baker is alive and in good health. There have been no reports of him being sick or having any health-related issues.
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