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 Hanover, West Germany |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | St Edmund Hall, Oxford |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Solicitor |
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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 United Kingdom 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 Party leadership election, he left his post as a Foreign Office Minister when Boris Johnson's premiership began. He stood down from the British House of Commons at the 2019 general election.