Norman Baker

Norman John Baker (born 26 July 1957) is a British politician. He is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewes. An assiduous campaigner and asker of parliamentary questions, he is currently a member of the Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet as Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary for Transport, having previously held other front-bench posts before stepping down in 2006 to devote his energies to an inquiry in the death of the government s... more

Norman John Baker (born 26 July 1957) is a British politician. He is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewes. An assiduous campaigner and asker of parliamentary questions, he is currently a member of the Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet as Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary for Transport, having previously held other front-bench posts before stepping down in 2006 to devote his energies to an inquiry in the death of the government scientist David Kelly. Born in Aberdeen, his family moved in 1968 to Hornchurch in East London. Baker was educated at the Royal Liberty School in Gidea Park, near Romford, and at Royal Holloway College, University of London, gaining a BA in German and History in 1978. He was a regional director for Our Price Records for five years from 1978. From 1985 he taught English as a foreign language until 1997, with a spell as a Liberal Democrat environment researcher in the House of Commons in 1989–90. In 1987 he was elected as a councillor to the... less