A Labour minister has left her role just two weeks after being appointed.

Baroness Curran joined Ed Miliband's Department for Energy Security and Net Zero 15 days ago.

But a statement from Downing Street on Friday afternoon has confirmed she has since left.

Curran had served as Glasgow East's Labour MP for five years until she was ousted by the SNP.

She was elevated to the Lords through a life peerage in January this year, before taking up her short-lived ministerial role on May 22.

Bloomberg reports that Curran's departure was due to a health condition that she thought would be manageable in the job, but proved too difficult.

The Labour peer, before taking up her energy role, had spoken out in strong terms in favour of net zero - which she deemed was "vital" to Britain.

"The stark reality that we must face is climate change and what it will do to us... it is here and it will impact on all our lives," she told the Lords back in April.

"So let us galvanise around the clean energy mission and deliver the targets, because that is the future that our people need."