Nick Boles

Nick Boles (Nicholas Edward Coleridge Boles, born 1965) is a Conservative politician.

He founded the think tank Policy Exchange in 2002 and served as its director until 2007.

He has been member of Parliament for Grantham and Stamford since 2010. He was appointed a junior minister in charge of planning at the Department for Communities and Local Government in 2012.

Boles is openly gay. In May 2011 he entered a civil partnership with an Israeli man, Shay Meshulam, whom he met on a Conservative Friends of Israel trip. He has claimed parliamentary expenses for Hebrew lessons so he could learn his partner's language. .

Nick Boles was ranked number 25 in the Independent on Sunday's Pink List 2011.