Former COP26 chair Sir Alok Sharma standing down as MP at subsequent election

Conservative former cupboard member Sir Alok Sharma has introduced he is not going to stand as an MP on the subsequent election.

Sir Alok, who chaired the COP26 local weather summit in Glasgow, was crucial of Rishi Sunak not too long ago when the prime minister watered down the federal government’s local weather commitments.

He stated final week that “it’d be incredibly damaging for business confidence, for inward investment, if the political consensus that we have forged in our country on the environment and climate action is fractured.

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“And, frankly, I really do not believe that it’s going to help any political party electorally which chooses to go down this path.”

In his letter to his constituency asserting his choice, the MP for Reading West stated he’ll nonetheless “champion in parliament the causes I care deeply about, especially climate action”.

Sir Alok’s seat is being modified as a part of the evaluate of constituency boundaries earlier than the subsequent election, anticipated in 2024.

Before serving because the president of COP26, he was a housing minister, then an employment minister. He went on to function worldwide growth secretary and enterprise secretary.