Matthew Robert Warman (born 1 September 1981) is a British Conservative Party politician and former journalist who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Boston and Skegness from

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. He served as

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at the

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from July to September 2022. Warman 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.

Early life and career

Matthew Warman was born on 1 September 1981 in

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, and was educated at

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in Elstree,

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. He then studied English at

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. Whilst at university, he was Treasurer of

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for the 2002/2003 academic year. Warman worked for ''

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'' from 1999 until 2015, focusing on technology, where he led coverage of

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, and covering the launch of products including

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and the

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, as well as interviewing key figures including the founder of

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, and

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, the inventor of the World Wide Web.

Parliamentary career

At the 2015 general election, Warman was elected to Parliament as MP for Boston and Skegness with 43.8% of the vote and a majority of 4,336. 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 (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. Despite his previous opposition, after the referendum he was listed as a supporter of pro-Brexit lobby group Leave Means Leave. At the snap 2017 general election, Warman was re-elected as MP for Boston and Skegness with an increased vote share of 63.6% and an increased majority of 16,572. Warman became a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the

on 26 July 2019, serving as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital Infrastructure. He was replaced on 16 September 2021 by Chris Philp. At the 2019 general election, Warman was again re-elected with an increased vote share of 76.7% and an increased majority of 25,621. He was made

at the

in July 2022 as part of the caretaker government by outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson. At the 2024 general election, Warman lost his seat to Richard Tice of

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, coming in second place with a decreased vote share of 33.4% compared to the 2019 election.

Post Parliament

In September 2024, Warman announced he had put himself forward to be the Conservative candidate for the 2025 Greater Lincolnshire mayoral election. He made it onto a six-man shortlist for the position, but missed out on the nomination which went to Rob Waltham following a selection event at Lincoln's Bishop Grosseteste University in December 2024.

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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 2019–2024 British Eurosceptics