Environment minister is newest Tory to say they’ll stand down at subsequent election
The Cumbrian MP’s Copeland constituency is about to be abolished on the subsequent election and Ms Harrison has mentioned she wouldn’t be in search of choice as a candidate within the alternative constituency of Whitehaven and Workington.
Ms Harrison instructed ITV Borders on Monday: “I wouldn’t live in that constituency boundary, which is part of the challenge I have.
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
“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 change into Boris Johnson’s parliamentary non-public secretary between December 2019 and September 2021, when she was promoted to a ministerial function 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 accepted by the Government earlier this 12 months amid criticism from environmental teams.
She has additionally known as for extra nuclear energy within the area, backing proposals for brand spanking new small modular reactors to be constructed subsequent to the Sellafield nuclear energy plant, which sits in her constituency.
More than 40 Conservative MPs have now introduced they’ll stand down on the subsequent election, together with Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and former ministers Dominic Raab, George Eustice and Sajid Javid.