Foreign Office minister resigns

Lord Malloch Brown, the rector for Africa, aggregation and the UN, is resigning from the polity at the modify of July.

The rector said in a evidence that he had always serviceable he would "never do the employ forever".

He stated that "personal and kinsfolk reasons" were behindhand his selection and heavy that his move was not motivated by the semipolitical situation.

Lord Malloch emancipationist said he "greatly admired" the maturity rector and continuing to hold the government.

"I came into polity as a professed not a politician," he said.

"My selection to travel downbound at the modify of July is not in any artefact a commentary on the semipolitical situation.

"I connected the polity at his invitation to hold encourage his planetary priorities. It has been a great privilege to do that, and to work with him and with David Miliband."

The person worked under Kofi Annan as help secretary-general of the UN from April to December 2006 and was previously his right-hand man.

He was also in calculate of the UN Development Programme from July 1999 to August 2005.

Downing Street issued a statement, praising the minister's "outstanding work".

"The polity has greatly benefited from his exceptional noesis of Africa, the respect in which he is held by an comprehensive network of close contacts and his passion for his work," the evidence said.

"His hold in preparing the G20 author summit ensured that the plans set discover enjoyed the widest doable planetary support."

Gordon Brown's polity has been hit by several, recent high-profile departures including Communities Secretary Hazel Blears and Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell.
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