LONDON-(MaraviPost)-The UK’s finance minister, Sajid Javid on Thursday 13, 2020 resigned unexpectedly from his post in Boris Johnson’s government, as the U.K. Prime Minister embarks on reshuffle of his top team since his emphatic election victory in December.
Sajid Javid was appointment as finance minister by Britain’s prime minister, Boris Johnson on Wednesday, July 24, 2020 after being promoted from his previous post as interior minister.
As reported by Times, Javid resigned from his post in Boris Johnson’s government after he was reportedly asked to fire his entire team of advisors if he wanted to keep his job.
The Prime Minister has appointed Rishi Sunak,former chief secretary to the Treasury and a rising star in the Conservative Party as Chancellor of the Exchequer (the formal title for Britain’s finance minister) on Thursday to replace Javid.
Also relieved from his cabinet position on Thursday was Julian Smith, the Northern Ireland secretary who had succeeded where his predecessors had failed in facilitating a resumption of power-sharing in the Northern Irish assembly, which collapsed following a scandal in 2017.
Accompanying Smith out of Downing Street’s metaphorical garbage chute were business secretary Andrea Leadsom, who was reportedly seen as having underperformed; and attorney general Geoffrey Cox, who will be best remembered for providing legal justification (eventually struck down in the supreme court) for suspending Parliament in September, at the height of the Brexit drama.
Johnson also appointed Alok Sharma, the former international development secretary, to head up Britain’s preparations for the crunch COP 26 climate conference set to be held in Glasgow in November.
The conference will mark five years since the Paris Agreement was reached and and is a crucial moment in international efforts on climate change, with countries due to upgrade the goals on cutting emissions they set at the 2015 meeting.
