The senior Tory will also step down as an MP at the next general election, he tells the Sunday Times.
Ben Wallace says he will step down as defence secretary at the next Cabinet reshuffle after four years in the job.he would not stand at the next general election, but ruled out leaving "prematurely" and triggering a by-election.
His Wyre and Preston North constituency is set to disappear at the next election under upcoming boundary changes and he told the newspaper he would not seek a new one. The comments were made at a fringe event at the Nato summit in Vilnius, after Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky said it was "absurd" that Nato would not give a timetable for his country securing membership of the bloc once the war with Russia is over.
He noted the strong support for Ukraine amongst the British public, and added he would "continue to support Ukraine on its path for as long as it takes". He suggested in the interview that he would continue to call for higher defence spending, something he has campaigned for throughout his time in the role.said he was no longer in the running to be the next secretary general of NatoThe announcement that Jens Stoltenberg would be continuing in the job effectively ended his hopes of becoming the next head of the military bloc.
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