Nicholas Boles (b. 1965) is a British Conservative Party activist and pundit. He is the Director of Policy Exchange and a former Westminster City councillor.
Boles studied PPE at Magdalen College, Oxford and won a Kennedy Scholarship to study for a Master's in Public Policy at the Kennedy School, Harvard University.
In 1995, he founded a DIY supply company, of which he is non-executive chairman. In 1998, he was elected to Westminster City Council for the West End ward comprising Mayfair and Soho. He was chairman of the Housing Committee from 1999 to 2001, before stepping down in 2002. During much of this time, Boles flatshared with fellow Conservative activists, Michael Gove and Ivan Massow. He and Gove, along with fellow Westminster Conservatives Ed Vaizey, David Cameron, George Osborne and Rachel Whetstone , are referred to as the 'Notting Hill set', an influential group of young up-and-coming Tories.
Boles is the Conservative Party candidate for the Labour-held marginal seat of Hove for the May 2005 general election. As a gay man, Boles would be the first 'out' homosexual to be newly elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament, if he were to take the seat. He has been tipped to be Britain's first gay prime minister.
Bibliography
- A Blue Tomorrow - New Visions for Modern Conservatives (2001) (ed. with Edward Vaizey and Michael Gove). ISBN 1842750275
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