Environment minister is newest Tory to announce they will stand down at subsequent election
Environment minister Trudy Harrison has develop into the most recent Tory MP to announce she will probably be standing down on the subsequent basic election.
The Cumbrian politician’s Copeland constituency is ready to be abolished as a consequence of boundary adjustments forward of the vote – which is predicted within the subsequent 18 months.
Ms Harrison stated she wouldn’t be in search of choice as a candidate within the substitute seat of Whitehaven and Workington.
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She advised ITV Borders on Monday: “I would not dwell in that constituency boundary, which is a part of the problem I’ve.
“But essentially I am a community activist at home and I want to come home and make sure that the policies that I have been involved with shaping and making actually reap benefits for people in West Cumbria.”
First elected at a by-election in 2017, Ms Harrison is Copeland’s first feminine MP and its first Conservative MP.
She went on to develop into Boris Johnson’s parliamentary personal secretary between December 2019 and September 2021, when she was promoted to a ministerial position on the Department for Transport.
She was then moved to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs by Liz Truss in September 2022.
Ms Harrison has been an outspoken supporter of plans to open a brand new coal mine in her constituency, which had been accredited by the federal government earlier this yr amid criticism from environmental teams.
She has additionally referred to as for extra nuclear energy within the area, backing proposals for brand new small modular reactors to be constructed subsequent to the Sellafield nuclear energy plant, which sits in her constituency.
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More than 40 Conservative MPs have now introduced they may stand down on the subsequent election, together with Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and former ministers Dominic Raab, George Eustice and Sajid Javid.
That’s round 13% of the celebration’s MPs and greater than double the quantity of Labour MPs stepping down.
The young age of many of those leaving has led to hypothesis that the celebration is going through an exodus as they path behind Labour within the polls.
But there was some good news final week as they narrowly held onto Boris Johnson’s outdated constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip – main prime minister Rishi Sunak to declare the subsequent election is “far from a done deal”.