25 Facts About Steve Double

Stephen Daniel Double was born on 19 December 1966 and is a British Conservative Party politician.

Steve Double was the Member of Parliament for St Austell and Newquay from 2015 until 2024 when he was defeated in the 2024 United Kingdom general election by Labour candidate Noah Law.

Steve Double served as a junior Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 28 October 2022 to 13 November 2023.

Stephen Steve Double was born on 19 December 1966 in St Austell.

The son of the evangelist Don Steve Double, he was state educated at the town's Poltair School, which was a comprehensive school at the time he attended.

Steve Double worked in Cornwall across a variety of sectors, including working for a bank, local church and charity.

At its establishment in 2009, Steve Double was one of four candidates elected onto St Austell Town Council for the Poltair Ward; he was re-elected in 2013 and served as deputy mayor of the town.

Steve Double declined to stand at the following election in 2017, having since become an MP.

Steve Double was elected as the Conservative Party candidate onto the new unitary Cornwall Council in 2009 for the St Austell Poltair division, but the seat was won by the Liberal Democrats candidate at the following election in 2013.

Steve Double did not stand for re-election to Cornwall Council in 2013.

Steve Double previously chaired the now defunct All Party Parliamentary Group Ocean Conservation, working with Cornish charity Surfers Against Sewage.

Steve Double has helped secure Government backing for a new link road between the A30 and St Austell.

Steve Double was vice-chair of the Parliamentary Beer Group which works to support pubs and breweries.

Steve Double was a member of the now defunct Ceramics All Party Parliamentary Group which represented the ceramics industry, including China Clay.

Steve Double sat on the Parliamentary Space Committee where he promoted Newquay as a frontrunner for the location of the UK's first spaceport.

Steve Double has served in Parliament as a Member of the Petitions Committee, the European Scrutiny Committee and the Transport Committee.

In December 2018, during the no-confidence vote against Theresa May as leader of the party, Steve Double said he would vote against the then-Prime Minister.

On 17 September 2021, Steve Double was appointed an Assistant Government Whip in the second cabinet reshuffle of the second Johnson ministry.

Steve Double was sacked in September 2022 by new Prime Minister Liz Truss.

Steve Double joined a number of colleagues in calling for Truss's resignation, after confusion over a vote on fracking.

On 28 October 2022, Steve Double was made Government Whip to the Ministry of Defence by new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, and King Charles III accordingly named him a junior Lord Commissioner of the Treasury by letters patent dated November 28,2022.

Steve Double has been married to Anne Bird since 1986; they have two sons.

Steve Double was listed in an article in The Daily Telegraph which criticised the practice of MPs employing family members, on the lines that it promotes nepotism.

In June 2016, Steve Double admitted an extra-marital affair with a married 26-year-old aide.

Steve Double had reportedly kept this secret from his wife of 30 years.