10 Facts About Matt Warman

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Matthew Robert Warman was born on 1 September 1981 and is a British Conservative Party politician and former journalist who served as Minister of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from July to September 2022.

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Matt Warman has been the Member of Parliament for Boston and Skegness since May 2015 and was an Assistant Government Whip from April 2019 to July 2019.

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Matt Warman served as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital Infrastructure from July 2019 to September 2021.

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Matt 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.

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In Parliament, Matt 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.

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Matt Warman was opposed to Brexit prior to the 2016 referendum.

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Matt Warman became an Assistant Government Whip on 23 April 2019.

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Matt Warman became a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 26 July 2019, serving as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital Infrastructure.

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Matt Warman was replaced on 16 September 2021 by Chris Philp.

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Matt Warman was made Minister of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in July 2022 as part of the caretaker government by outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson.