Matthew Robert Warman (born 1 September 1981) is a British Conservative Party politician and former journalist who served as

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at the

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from July to September 2022. He has been the

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(MP) for

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since May 2015 and was an Assistant Government Whip from April 2019 to July 2019. He served as a

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from July 2019 to September 2021.

Early life

Warman was educated at

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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 ''

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'' from 1999 until 2015, focusing for most of the period on technology, leading coverage of

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and

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, and covering the launch of products including iPhones, BBC iPlayer and the

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, as well as interviewing key figures including the founder of

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, and Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. In

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, Warman was a member of the

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, 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

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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 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

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at the

on 26 July 2019, serving as the

. He was replaced on 16 September 2021 by Chris Philp. He was made

at the

in July 2022 as part of the caretaker government by outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Warman, Matt 1981 births Alumni of Durham University Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies The Daily Telegraph people Living people People educated at Haberdashers' Boys' School UK MPs 2015–2017 UK MPs 2017–2019 UK MPs 2019–present