Ben Wallace has confirmed that he will resign as defence secretary in the next Cabinet reshuffle.
The Conservative MP will also stand down in the next general election, but doesn’t plan to trigger a by-election by resigning “prematurely,” he told The Times of London.
“I’m not standing next time,” Mr. Wallace said.
“I went into politics in the Scottish parliament in 1999. That’s 24 years. I’ve spent well over seven years with three phones by my bed.”
Around 40 Conservative MPs have resigned recently or announced they will not stand in the next election, including former cabinet ministers Dominic Raab and Sajid Javid and chairman of the influential 1922 committee of Conservative backbenchers Sir Graham Brady….