Brooks Phillip Victor Newmark[1] (born 8 May 1958) is a former British Conservative politician, who served as a Member of Parliament and minister.

[2] Newmark is a visiting academic at the University of Oxford and became a guest lecturer in politics after his parliamentary career ended.

[3][4] He is a founder of the charity 'A Partner in Education',[5] a campaigner on homelessness and a member of the Rough Sleeping Advisory Panel that advises the Home Office.

While at Harvard, he was a member of Eliot House, Lightweight Varsity Crew, Rugby Football Club, and UAC Foreign Admissions Chairman.

[16] During his time as an MP, Newmark co-founded and co-chaired Women2Win, an organisation established to encourage women into politics and public service.

Newmark resigned as Minister for Civil Society on 27 September 2014, a day before the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham.

[18][19][20][21][22] Fellow Conservative MP Mark Pritchard announced that he would make a formal complaint against the newspaper saying that "questionable techniques" had been involved in the paper's report.

[23] Following a new "text-and-tell story" in October 2014 involving a young mother, Newmark announced he would not seek re-election to Parliament in the forthcoming general election.

[25][26] Newmark's interests include: Economic Policy, Foreign Affairs (Middle East, India, China and USA); Poverty Reduction & International Development (Micro Finance), Special Needs Education and Women & Equality (Founder and Co-Chairman of Women2Win).

[32] Just days after the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he participated in evacuations of Ukrainians civilians from the Polish border to a number of European countries.