Matt Hancock could potentially move across Parliament to the House of Lords after being voted "not fit" to represent his constituents by local Conservatives last week. After confirming he will step down as a Member of Parliament at the next general election yesterday, the former Health Secretary said he was "excited to explore" a "whole new world of possibilities", with his spokesman refusing to rule him out becoming a peer The Mirror reports.
Hancock, who came third in this year's edition of ITV I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, confirmed on Wednesday he will not stand for his West Suffolk seat at the next election, with the former Cabinet minister's allies claiming he has "lots of irons in the fire", which include a possible career as a documentary maker and a return to the world of business. Were he to be elected to the Lords, the chamber's selection process would once again be questioned.
Throughout his five-week absence from the House of Commons, which saw the Conservative Party remove his whip, Hancock's team insisted he had no intention of quitting politics. However in a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak earlier this week he said he had decided he would not run again as a candidate at the next election as he wants to "do things differently".
