From Eurosceptic to public apologies - BBCGarethG profiles Northern Ireland Minister SteveBakerHW
I am told the Irish were "flabbergasted", as was almost everyone else when he finally went public last Sunday night.
The former Ulster Unionist MP, David Burnside, who knows Steve Baker well, said he met him the following morning at the conference and joked he had become "very moderate".A source in the NIO said Steve Baker and Chris Heaton-Harris had not been what they had expected.But someone who has followed his career closely said that to understand Steve Baker you must also understand his Christian faith.As the political editor of the BBC Newsnight programme, Nick Watt knows Steve Baker well.
"What people, perhaps, don't know quite so much about Steve Baker is the importance of his background. "He loves the freedom of going home on his motorbike, and his very, very important Christian faith. And that is intrinsic to him."
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