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MENUSpeaker Steve Baker offers thirty years of leadership experience. His career has encompassed military aerospace engineering, software development, and, of course, time in Parliament as an MP. He has been a minister in three government departments and has been appointed a Privy Councillor by His Majesty King Charles III.
Steve Baker is known for his campaigns on leaving the European Union – Brexit. As a politician he also campaigned against what he saw as excessive covid restrictions and for a new affordable and more pragmatic approach to getting to Net Zero.
Returning to the private sector after losing his seat in the electoral tidal wave of 2024, Steve Baker is now the Chief Provocation Officer of The Provocation People, jointly with Professor Paul Dolan of the LSE. Their business has developed a programme to help companies break free from group-think and to embrace wide disagreement in the cause of greater innovation, productivity, profitability and happiness at work. And on the financial side of things Steve now advises companies seeking a bottom up return to sound money via gold and Bitcoin.
During his parliamentary career Steve earned a reputation for handling ferocious disagreement with civility, and was named as Civility in Politics Politician of the Year 2020, jointly with Ken Clarke, following his emollient speech on the night the UK left the EU.
As Minister for Exiting the EU he legislated solving innumerable problems of the United Kingdom’s exit. As Minister of State for Northern Ireland and the Cabinet Office, he secured five Acts, hosted a successful investment conference, celebrated the Good Friday Agreement 25th Anniversary and restored devolved government to Belfast.
When he reset UK-Irish and consequently UK-EU relations with a carefully-worded apology to Ireland, he was named ‘The unlikeliest doyen of British-Irish relations’ by the Irish Times. Today he continues to enjoy friendly relations with diplomats of the member countries of the EU.
Steve appears almost continuously in the chronicles of Brexit – read Tim Shipman’s No Way Out! Having concluded that Theresa May’s Brexit deal would divide the Conservative Party terminally and hand the country to a Corbyn-McDonnell government, he organised MPs to overthrow policy – successfully. He has been dubbed ‘The General’, ‘Rebel Commander’, ‘Government Tormentor in Chief’, ‘The Godfather of the Conservative Right’ and ‘the long-term wizard of Tory plotting’, epithets he wears with a mixture of both satisfaction and some regret. Former Chancellor Lord Lawson said of Steve Baker; ‘I have long considered Steve the outstanding MP of his generation’.
Principled disruptor or rogue influence, there is no denying Steve Baker’s impact on the life of our country since 2010. He is also a very fine speaker. You can contact Steve Baker via a Specialist Speakers agent exclusively on +44 [0]1455 633289 for all speaking enquiries, both in-person and virtual.
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