Skills minister Alex Burghart is the latest Conservative to resign from prime minister Boris Johnson’s government.
The Brentwood and Ongar MP followed colleagues in a string of resignations from ministerial positions, triggered by the high-profile resignations of Sajid Javid as health secretary and Rishi Sunak as chancellor of the exchequer on Tuesday evening.
They came as a result of the prime minister’s handling of the Chris Pincher allegations around groping.
Burghart tweeted this afternoon: “It is with great regret that I am today resigning as a minister in the Department for Education – I am very grateful to the Prime Minister for having given me the opportunity to serve.”
