1. Steve Webb was the Minister of State for Pensions in the coalition government of David Cameron.
16 Facts About Steve Webb
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Steve Webb then worked at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London, where he specialised in researching into poverty, taxes and benefits.
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At the 1997 general election, Steve Webb was elected as MP for Northavon, just north of Bristol, overturning a Conservative majority of over 11,000.
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Steve Webb increased a 2,137 majority to 9,877 in the 2001 election and again to 11,033 in the 2005 election.
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In 2001, Steve Webb was promoted by Charles Kennedy to lead spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats on Work and Pensions, a portfolio he had worked in since 1999.
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Steve Webb continued in this position until being appointed as Liberal Democrat Health spokesperson in 2005.
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On 8 January 2009 Nick Clegg announced his "General Election Team" and an "economic recovery group" with Steve Webb appointed as Work and Pensions spokesman.
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Steve Webb was a member of the cross-party Christians in Parliament, and vice-president of the Liberal Democrat Christian Forum.
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Steve Webb was one of the first MPs to have a blog and a website, and in 2004, his website, which made use of SMS technology, was commended in the New Statesman New Media Awards and, in February 2005, led him to win the inaugural Hansard Society E-Democracy Award.
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Steve Webb recognised the emerging potential of online social networks by joining Myspace and Facebook, two of the biggest social media websites at the time.
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Steve Webb was one of the contributors to the Orange Book and is the author of a chapter in The Future of the NHS.
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On 17 October 2007, the website Bloggers4Steve announced that Webb had received enough nominations from MPs to run.
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Subsequently, Steve Webb was elected for the new Thornbury and Yate constituency, which covers most of the ground originally covered by Northavon.
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Steve Webb attracted media attention in March 2014, when he remarked in a television interview that due to the coalition government's pension reforms, he was relaxed if pensioners wanted to spend their savings on a Lamborghini.
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In 2020, Steve Webb left Royal London to take up a partner role at the consultancy Lane Clark and Peacock.
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On 10 July 1993, Steve Webb married Helen, a curate at his local church in Clapham, south London.