New Prime Minister Liz Truss has appointed one of the Humber MPs to a key role in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
Graham Stuart becomes Minister for Climate in the new government, and will attend Cabinet meetings. Jacob Rees-Mogg has been appointed Business and Energy Secretary, following Kwasi Kwarteng’s elevation to Chancellor - the role vacated by Rishi Sunak that sparked the downfall of Boris Johnson earlier this summer.
Mr Stuart, who represents Beverley and Holderness, was first elected in 2005, having previously served as a local councillor in Cambridge, where he went to university and chaired the Cambridge University Conservative Association. In government he has chaired the Education Select Committee, served as assistant whip to Theresa May and went on to spend three years in international trade roles.
