Stephen Crabb

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He's recently emerged from the shadowy world of the whips' office at Westminster to become the Welsh Secretary's deputy in the Commons. The judges were impressed by his confident performance at Welsh Questions, dealing with an increasingly unruly house with the Prime Minister sat beside him, waiting for his turn at the despatch box. [23]

Secretary of State for Wales

In the reshuffle of July 2014, Crabb was promoted to Secretary of State for Wales and joined the Cabinet. [14] One of his first acts as Welsh Secretary was to abandon his taxpayer subsidised car in favour of public transport. [24] He has said his proudest moment in the post was brokering a deal between the Treasury and the devolved Welsh government to extend the electrification of the Great Western Main Line to Swansea and The Valleys. [8]

Crabb remained in the job after the post-general election cabinet reshuffle held on 11 May 2015. [25] He welcomed the impact of Iain Duncan Smith's welfare reforms in Wales, saying: "We can't go soft on welfare reform in a place like Wales – it's precisely the place that needs it." [7]

Cuts to sickness benefits

On 2 March 2016, Crabb voted with the government to reduce by £30 per week the amount of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) paid to disabled people newly placed in the cohort of recipients known as the work-related activity group from April 2017. [26] Crabb's constituency office was vandalised afterwards, with graffiti asking: "Why do you hate the sick?" seen on its facade on 12 March. [27] [28] [29]

In a statement about the outcome of the vote issued on 14 March, Crabb explained: "What this actually means is that those individuals who are considered to be able to work in the future will now access the same level of benefit as those on Jobseekers Allowance, but will be given better-tailored support to help them into employment. It doesn't affect those already claiming ESA. Of course, we are protecting those that are 'too ill to work'. There is no question about that." [27] Three days later, Crabb claimed on his Facebook page that "only those who are fit to work and actively seeking work are included in the work-related activity group". [30] His post had to be amended: the work-related activity group contains ESA claimants deemed 'too ill to work' but capable of participating in work-related activities, such as job-coaching and pre-employment training, who are assessed as likely to work within two years, not immediately.

The following week, Debbie Abrahams MP, Labour's spokesperson on disabilities, said: "It doesn't bode well for David Cameron that the man he chooses to make the new work and pensions secretary doesn't even know the status of people in the ESA WRAG", while Jonathan Portes, a former DWP chief economist and an expert on welfare policy, was puzzled that Crabb, as a Cabinet Minister, could vote on important changes to ESA while appearing to be confused about what the vote was about. [30]

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

On 19 March 2016, Crabb was appointed to succeed Iain Duncan Smith as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions following the latter's sudden, unexpected resignation over proposed changes to the Personal Independence Payment (PIP), a disability benefit unrelated to the employment status of the claimant. In his first parliamentary statement as Welfare Secretary, Crabb said that the Government "will not be going ahead with the changes to PIP that were put forward. We have no further plans to make welfare savings beyond the very substantial savings legislated for by parliament two weeks ago [cuts to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)] which we will now focus on implementing." [31] [32]

Shortly after being appointed, he outlined his views on social security: "Every party should want to see welfare spending come down. That should be an aspiration for all of us because what you're saying is we are working towards a society where there are fewer people caught in dependency, fewer people who are out of work and need that intervention from the state." He also said: "You have always got to handle issues of welfare with care because you are dealing with support mechanisms for Britain's most vulnerable people". [33]

In early April 2016, Crabb gave an interview where he was critical of ESA and its eligibility test. He said: "ESA was a benefit the previous Labour government brought in when they brought in Work Capability Assessments (WCA) and the truth is it's never worked like it was intended. The WCA was a mess, it didn't recognise mental health issues and it didn't recognise other types of disability". [34]

In July 2016, Crabb resigned from the post, after admitting to sending sexually explicit messages to a 19-year-old woman he had interviewed for a job while he was Welsh Minister. [35] [36]

Leadership bid

In June 2016, Crabb announced that he would stand in the Conservative party leadership election, following David Cameron's resignation over the outcome of the 2016 EU membership referendum. [37] He stood on a "joint ticket" with the Business Minister, Sajid Javid, [38] [39] with Crabb to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Javid the Chancellor of the Exchequer if Crabb had won. [38] [40] [41]

Crabb promised to create a £100 billion "Growing Britain Fund", which he would use for flood defences, fibre-optic broadband, and Crossrail 2. He hoped to finance this through new government bonds, because "the cost of borrowing is incredibly low. Spending government money on infrastructure has therefore never been more affordable". [42] He also said he would: allow the third runway at Heathrow to go ahead; [43] create an advisory council with members from England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and London to help with negotiations with the EU; and not hold a snap election nor a second EU referendum. [44] [45]

On 5 July 2016, after the first ballot of Conservative MPs, he was in penultimate place. The tailender, Liam Fox, was eliminated from the contest; Crabb then withdrew from the race, giving his backing to Theresa May. [46]

2017 general election

In the general election of 8 June 2017, Crabb again retained his seat, though with a majority of only 314; however, his share of the vote increased to 43.4%. He claimed that he had lost votes in the election through Conservative spending cuts. He also said local authority employees, nurses and teachers should get a pay rise. [47]

2019 general election

In the 2019 general election, Crabb's majority increased to 5,062. Subsequent to this Crabb was chosen to serve as Chairman of the Welsh Affairs Select Committee in January 2020.

Political views

Religious beliefs

Crabb is a Christian who believes in the practical value of prayer and who feels the church should play an active role in community life. [48]

He has past links to Christian Action Research and Education (CARE), an advocacy group that is opposed to LGBT rights [49] [50] – during the 1990s Crabb was a parliamentary intern backed by the organisation, and he is one of around twenty MPs to have employed interns funded by CARE. [51] [52] When quizzed about his views during his party leadership bid in July 2016, Crabb said: "I don't believe that being gay is a sin. I don't believe it's something to be cured. I've never said anything like that," and claimed accusations to the contrary were "a complete falsehood spread by political opponents". [53] CARE has jointly sponsored a conference at which a discussion of "therapeutic approaches to same sex attraction" was discussed by one of the panel. [54]

On 5 February 2013, in the House of Commons vote Crabb voted against same-sex marriage. [55]

Conservative Friends of Israel

Crabb is Parliamentary Chairman of Conservative Friends of Israel, [56] [57] a pressure or lobby group which stated in 2014 that it included among its membership 80% of Conservative Party MPs. [58] In May 2016, he spoke at a meeting organised by an Orthodox Jewish youth movement to mark the establishment of Israel in 1948. He celebrated the claim that Israel is a country in the Middle East where Christians are not persecuted and said of his visit to Israel in 2007: "As a Christian, I have always felt a very close affinity with the Holy Land. It was a delight to see places that I had learned about during my own childhood at Sunday school and in the pages of the scriptures we were encouraged to read." He went on to draw a parallel between the size and verdancy of Israel and that of his own "homeland", Wales. [59]

Sexual harassment allegations

In October 2017, newspapers reported that in 2013 a well-known male MP had been sending sexually explicit messages to a 19-year-old female candidate he had interviewed for a role in his office. On 28 October 2017, The Telegraph reported that Crabb was the MP responsible for sending the text messages. [60]

Earlier allegations about sending suggestive text messages had resulted in his resignation as Work and Pensions Secretary in 2016. [36] Crabb apologised for the text messages, and on 23 December 2017 a Conservative Party investigating panel determined that his behaviour had been inappropriate, but did not constitute harassment. [61]

A friend of the woman said they saw messages in which the father-of-two "said he wanted to have sex with her". [62] Crabb admitted sending the messages and saying "some pretty outrageous things" to the woman after interviewing her for a job, adding that the messages "basically amount to unfaithfulness". [61]

Personal life

Crabb is married to Béatrice Monnier, who is French; they have two children. [17] They met whilst studying at the University of Bristol. [63] He is in the squad of the Commons and Lords rugby union team. [17]

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The Right Honourable
Stephen Crabb
MP
Official portrait of Rt Hon Stephen Crabb MP crop 2.jpg
Official portrait, 2020
Chair of the Welsh Affairs Select Committee
Assumed office
28 January 2020
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament
for Preseli Pembrokeshire
2005–present		Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by Secretary of State for Wales
2014–2016		Succeeded by
Preceded by Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
2016		Succeeded by
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