Sajid Javid to give up as MP at subsequent election

Former UK well being secretary Sajid Javid has confirmed that he won’t stand as an MP within the subsequent common election, turning into the newest high-profile Conservative politician to announce their departure from Westminster.

Javid has held numerous senior positions in authorities together with serving as UK’s first non-white chancellor and holding the roles of residence secretary, tradition secretary and enterprise secretary below the governments of Boris Johnson, David Cameron and Theresa Could.

In a letter to his native Conservative affiliation on Friday, the MP for Bromsgrove, who was elected to parliament in 2010, mentioned that serving as an MP and member of presidency had been “the privilege” of his life.

“This determination won’t mark the top of my parliamentary exercise, significantly for the causes I care deeply about,” he wrote in a press release on Twitter. “Nor will it impression my duties as an area MP on behalf of constituents throughout Bromsgrove.”

Conservative MPs have a deadline of December 5 to verify whether or not they plan to face within the subsequent common election, with social gathering officers braced for additional departures.

Former work and pensions secretary Chloe Smith, Dehenna Davison, the 29-year-old MP for Bishop Auckland, and Chris Skidmore, a former science minister, are amongst those that won’t stand for re-election.

Javid’s announcement got here as Rishi Sunak suffered the primary electoral defeat of his premiership, after the Labour social gathering retained the seat of the Metropolis of Chester in Thursday’s by-election.

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