With the polls pointing to a Tory thrashing, how many of the 2019 Red Wallers will win their seats next time? One who isn’t hanging around to find out is Dehenna Davison, the 30-year-old MP for Bishop Auckland. She announced back in November that she was standing down from parliament and today she has also declared that she is quitting her post as a junior minister for Levelling Up.
In her resignation letter, Davison said it was ‘impossible’ to stay in the job while battling chronic migraines and that she wants to spend more time on constituency work. She now intends to focus her efforts on campaigning for one punch assault victims; her late father died after a single punch in a Sheffield pub. Davison wrote that:
Some days I’m fine, but on others it is difficult, if not impossible, to keep up with the demands of ministerial life and the timing of such days is never predictable.
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