Two More UK Ministers Resign, Sunak Shuffles Cabinet Amid Mounting Tory Election Worries
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Two more Tory ministers, Robert Halfon and James Heappey, have resigned from the government, forcing PM Rishi Sunak into a mini-reshuffle.
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Halfon was the education minister and has announced he will step down as an MP at the next election. Heappey was the armed forces minister.
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Over 60 Tory MPs have now said they will not stand at the next election as the party struggles in the polls with Labour expected to win.
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Sunak carried out a mini-reshuffle to replace the departed ministers with Nus Ghani, Leo Docherty, Kevin Hollinrake, Luke Hall, and Alan Mak.
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The resignations add to the sense of fatalism and concern that many Tory MPs have already given up with the next election expected to exceed the previous record number of 75 MPs standing down.