Ben Wallace, The Defence Secretary, has announced that he will resign from the Government at the next Cabinet reshuffle and not fight the next general election.

Mr Wallace said he was “not standing next time” but ruled out leaving Parliament “prematurely” and forcing Rishi Sunak to deal with another by-election.

“I went into politics in the Scottish parliament in 1999,” he told The Sunday Times. “That’s 24 years.”

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