Steve Baker joins AI startup Suffrago as strategic adviser

Summarised from Bucks Free Press's report · Updated 14 Oct, 06:08 · Archive

Former Wycombe MP Steve Baker has become a strategic adviser to civic technology startup Suffrago.

Steve Baker, the former Conservative MP for Wycombe who served as a Brexit minister and later at the Northern Ireland Office until 2024, has joined AI startup Suffrago as a strategic adviser. He joins alongside Harry Richer, his former senior adviser. Suffrago, founded in Harrogate by entrepreneur and former law firm boss Andrew Gray, is a civic technology company developing tools to connect public opinion, public data and artificial intelligence around Britain's 650 parliamentary constituencies.

The platform allows individuals and organisations to create polls, gather comments and use artificial intelligence to analyse different perspectives behind the results. Suffrago says it wants to help MPs, councils, journalists, businesses and the public make better-informed decisions by connecting evidence with people's views. Baker and Richer will advise on strategy, particularly how the technology can be useful to decision-makers and democratic institutions.

Baker said there is 'never been more noise and less communication' and that MPs are 'drowning among clamouring voices', with Suffrago helping cut through to relevant voices. Gray said he valued Baker's 'unusual combination of experience in technology, Parliament and government', adding the company wants to help 'Britain understand itself better'. Suffrago describes itself as politically independent with a commitment to transparent evidence and protecting individual opinions.

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• Former Wycombe MP Steve Baker bags a new role at AI startup aiming to help politicianFormer Wycombe MP Steve Baker has joined AI startup Suffrago as a strategic adviser, helping develop tools to understand public opinion.Bucks Free Press · 14 Oct, 05:00

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