Robert Halfon has resigned as minister for skills, apprenticeships and higher education and plans to stand down as an MP at the next election.
Posting on X this afternoon, Halfon said he “feels it is time for me to step down at the forthcoming general election” after more than two decades in parliament.
Halfon became skills minister for the first time in 2016 but was sacked a year later by then-prime minister Theresa May.
He moved on to become the chair of the education select committee, serving for five years, before returning to the skills brief, with the additional job of higher education, in the Department for Education in October 2022.
It is not clear at this stage who will replace Halfon as skills minister.
