Steven John Bakeris a British former politician who served as Minister of State for Northern Ireland between 2022 and 2024. He is a former Royal Air Force engineer, consultant and banker. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wycombe in Buckinghamshire from 2010 to 2024. Baker was the chair of the European Research Group (ERG) from 2016 to 2017 and from 2019 to 2020.
In June 2015 he became co-chair of Conservatives for Britain, a campaigning organisation formed of Eurosceptic MPs. He co-founded The Cobden Centre and is a former member of its advisory board. He established and chairs the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on Economics, Money and Banking.
He was chair of the ERG, a pro-Brexit group of Conservative MPs, from 20 November 2016 until his promotion to ministerial office at the Department for Exiting the European Union on 13 June 2017, but resigned from his office on 9 July 2018 following the resignation of David Davis over concerns with the government's strategy on Brexit. That same day, Jacob Rees-Mogg appointed Baker as the deputy chair and de facto whip of the ERG, alongside Mark Francois. In late 2021, Baker announced the campaign group Conservative Way Forward will be relaunched in 2022, with him as its new chairman.
