Brooks Newmark

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Brooks Newmark has been the UK Conservative MP for Braintree since 2005. He was a government whip as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 2010 to 2012.[1] In July 2014, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary at the Cabinet Office.[2] He resigned from the Government on 27 September 2014 over newspaper allegations about his private life.[3]

Business interests

Newmark owns the investment firm Telesis Management. [4]

Notes

  1. Mr Brooks Newmark, www.parliament.uk, accessed 24 August 2013.
  2. Ministerial appointments: July 2014, Prime Minister's Office, 15 July 2014.
  3. Tory minister Brooks Newmark resigns from government, BBC News, 27 September 2014.
  4. Alexandra Topping, Sunday Mirror under pressure to reveal details of Tory minister ‘sexting’ sting, The Guardian, 28 September 2014, accessed same day