Nick Boles

Nick Boles
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 (1965-11-02) 2 November 1965 (age 58) Henham, Essex
Political party	Conservative (until 2019)
Education	Magdalen College, Oxford (BA) Harvard University (MPP)
Website	Official website

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.