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Justine Greening resigns from Government after refusing to take new role in Theresa May's reshuffle | |
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Justine Greening has quit her job as education secretary after Prime Minister Theresa May tried to move her to another department in her latest reshuffle. | |
After a standoff during a gruelling three-hour meeting in Downing Street on Monday, Ms Greening walked out of the Cabinet. | |
The former minister was pushing to stay in her education brief and was unwilling to accept a different job offered to her by the Prime Minister. | |
Downing Street aides said Ms May was “disappointed” but respected Ms Greening’s decision to leave. | |
Ms Greening had been promoting her achievements at the Department for Education in recent days after facing criticism from Ms May’s allies. | |
She had been attacked for not being as loyal to Ms May as others and not being on the same wavelength as her over her education reforms. | |
But as Ms Greening received word that she was being pushed out of her department, she began a counteroffensive at the weekend touting rising school standards and new measures to boost literacy. | |
The Prime Minister offered Ms Greening a job at the Department for Work and Pensions, but failed in her attempt to keep the minister from quitting in protest at the move from education. | |
Ms Greening was succeeded as Education Secretary by Damian Hinds, who was promoted from being a junior Work and Pensions Minister. | |
The way Ms Greening left the Government could cause a headache for the PM when the Putney MP, who backed Remain in the referendum campaign, returns to the backbenches. |
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