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Energy minister Graham Stuart has announced he is quitting his ministerial role to focus on local issues.

Graham Stuart has this afternoon quit the government, saying he wishes to focus on local issues after service in various ministerial posts. The Yorkshire MP has spent seven of the last eight years in office, including as energy minister since September 2022. But in a letter today to Rishi Sunak, he says that ‘I have

Stuart is defending a 20,000 Conservative majority at the next election.

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's climate change minister Graham Stuart resigned from the government after eight years on Friday, saying it was the right time to step down. Stuart said he would stand again for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservatives in an election expected later this year, with the opposition Labour Party leading in polls by a large margin. "Having served as a minister for most of the last eight years I have decided that now is the time to stand down," he said in a letter to Sunak posted on social media platform X.

Graham Stuart, 62, (pictured) told the Prime Minister it had been an 'enormous privilege to serve as a minister' and assured Sunak he would continue to give him his 'full support'.