Matt Warman
Matthew Robert Warman is a British Conservative Party politician and former journalist. He has been the Member of Parliament for Boston and Skegness since May 2015 and was appointed an Assistant Government Whip on 23 April 2019.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.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.
In Parliament, Warman was a member of the Science and Technology Select Committee, and a former Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Broadband and Digital Communication and Pictfor.
Warman was opposed to Brexit prior to the 2016 referendum. However, his constituency voted with the highest proportion of any constituency in the UK to leave, with 75.6% of voters, just over three quarters of the constituency, casting their vote to leave. The wider county of Lincolnshire is a heavily Leave-supporting area.
Warman became an Assistant Government Whip on 23 April 2019.
In July 2019, Warman voted to extend same-sex marriage to Northern Ireland.
Warman became a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 26 July 2019.
