Steve Baker (politician): Difference between revisions

Baker has advocated a return to the [[gold standard]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Baker |first=Steve |title=Gold |url=http://www.stevebaker.info/tag/gold/ |website=stevebaker.info |access-date=2 December 2018}}</ref> and identifies with the [[Austrian School of Economics]].<ref name="graunprof">{{cite news |title=Steve Baker, the ex-Brexit minister hell-bent on torpedoing May's Chequers plan |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/30/steve-baker-the-ex-brexit-minister-hell-bent-on-torpedoing-mays-chequers-plan |access-date=2 December 2018 |work=The Guardian |date=30 September 2018}}</ref> He opposed [[quantitative easing]] policies in 2011, arguing they would create a worse crisis.<ref>{{cite news|title=Village People: Tories ill at ease with the wheeze that is quantitative easing|first=Andy|last=McSmith|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|date=8 October 2011|access-date=17 December 2011|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/village-people-tories-ill-at-ease-with-the-wheeze-that-is-quantitative-easing-2367373.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/village-people-tories-ill-at-ease-with-the-wheeze-that-is-quantitative-easing-2367373.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live}}</ref>

 

Baker voted in opposition to the [[Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013]], and called for the denationalisation of marriage. He argued that the current situation risks infringing both the freedoms of the religious and [[LGBT]] communities, and that private individuals should define the term ''marriage'', rather than the state.<ref>{{cite web|last=Baker|first=Steve|title=Where I stand " Gay Marriage|date=5 February 2013|url=http://www.stevebaker.info/2013/02/why-i-voted-against-the-marriage-same-sex-couples-bill/|access-date=25 February 2014}}</ref>