Editing Mark Field (section)

{{Short description|British Conservative politician (born 1964)}}
{{For|the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats rugby league player|Mark Field (rugby league)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2020}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix    = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name                = Mark Field
| honorific-suffix    = 
| image               = Mark-field (cropped).jpg
| caption             = Official portrait, 2017
| office              = [[Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific]]<!--No need to edit the wikilink, per [[WP:NOTBROKEN]]-->
| primeminister       = [[Theresa May]]
| term_start          = 13 June 2017
| term_end            = 25 July 2019{{efn|Suspended from 21 June 2019.}}
| predecessor         = [[Alok Sharma]]
| successor           = [[Heather Wheeler]]
| office2             = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]]<br />for [[Cities of London and Westminster (UK Parliament constituency)|Cities of London and Westminster]]
| parliament2         = 
| term_start2         = 7 June 2001
| term_end2           = 6 November 2019
| majority2           = 
| predecessor2        = [[Peter Brooke, Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville|Peter Brooke]]
| successor2          = [[Nickie Aiken]]
|office3              = Member of [[Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council]] for Abingdon 
|term_start3          = May 1994
|term_end3            = May 2002
| birth_date          = {{Birth date and age|1964|10|6|df=yes}}
| birth_place         = [[Hanover]], [[West Germany]]
| nationality         = British
| spouse              = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|[[Michele Acton]]|1994|2006|end=div}}
* {{marriage|Victoria |2007}}
}}
| party               = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| children            = 2
| residence           = 
| alma_mater          = [[St Edmund Hall, Oxford]]
| occupation          = [[Politician]]
| profession          = [[Solicitor]]
| footnotes           = {{notelist}}
| website             = 
}}

'''Mark Christopher Field''' (born 6 October 1964) is a British politician who served as the [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Cities of London and Westminster (UK Parliament constituency)|Cities of London and Westminster]] from [[2001 United Kingdom general election|2001]] to 2019.<ref name="parl" /> A member of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fuller |first=Phoebe |last2=Updated |date=2022-09-05 |title=Liz Truss: new PM's life from Leeds roots to affair with fellow MP |url=https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/leeds-news/liz-truss-new-pms-life-24932478.amp |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=Leeds Live |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |agency=Press Association |date=2009-11-05 |title=Tory Elizabeth Truss faces deselection vote in two weeks over affair |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/nov/05/elizabeth-truss-deselection-affair |access-date=2025-03-31 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> 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 United Kingdom general election|2019 general election]].