Nick Boles | |
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 Official portrait, c. 2014–16 | |
| Minister of State for Skills | |
| In office 14 July 2014 – 13 July 2016 | |
| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Matt Hancock |
| Succeeded by | Robert Halfon |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Decentralisation | |
| In office 5 September 2012 – 14 July 2014 | |
| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Greg Clark |
| Succeeded by | Penny Mordaunt |
| Member of Parliament for Grantham and Stamford | |
| In office 6 May 2010 – 6 November 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Quentin Davies |
| Succeeded by | Gareth Davies |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Nicholas Edward Coleridge Boles 2 November 1965 Henham, Essex, England |
| Political party | Labour (2022–) |
| Other political affiliations | Conservative (until 2019) |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA) Harvard University (MPP) |
| Website | www |
Nicholas Edward Coleridge Boles (born 2 November 1965) is a British politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Grantham and Stamford from 2010 to 2019. He was a member of the Conservative Party until 2019.
Before entering parliament, Boles was a Westminster City councillor and the director of Policy Exchange, a think tank based in Westminster. He was elected to the Grantham and Stamford constituency in Lincolnshire at the 2010 general election. He served as Minister of State for Skills from 2014 to 2016.
Boles resigned from his local Conservative Association on 16 March 2019 citing differences with his local party. On 1 April 2019, he resigned the party whip, accusing the party of failing to compromise on Brexit. He then sat as an Independent Progressive Conservative until the dissolution of parliament on 5 November.