Mark Field
Mark Field | |
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Official portrait, 2017 | |
| Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific | |
| In office 13 June 2017 – 25 July 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Alok Sharma |
| Succeeded by | Heather Wheeler |
| Member of Parliament for Cities of London and Westminster | |
| In office 7 June 2001 – 6 November 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Peter Brooke |
| Succeeded by | Nickie Aiken |
| Member of Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council for Abingdon | |
| In office May 1994 – May 2002 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 October 1964 |
| Party | Conservative |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | St Edmund Hall, Oxford |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Solicitor |
Mark Christopher Field (born 6 October 1964) is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cities of London and Westminster from 2001 to 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as a Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2017 to 2019. Field's extra-marital affair between 2004 and 2005 with Liz Truss led to Field's divorce from Michele Acton and an attempt to prevent Truss standing as a parliamentary candidate at the 2010 general election by members of her constituency association. A prominent supporter of the United Kingdom remaining in the European Union during the Brexit referendum and of Jeremy Hunt in the 2019 Conservative leadership election, he left his post as a Foreign Office Minister when Boris Johnson's premiership began. He stood down from the House of Commons at the 2019 general election.