Ruth Kelly is to stand down from her position as Transport Secretary in the next cabinet reshuffle. Ms Kelly says she is leaving the government in order to spend more time with her four children.
The announcement comes just weeks after Autocar revealed that Ms Kelly’s department plans to bring in a complex road tolling system as early as 2010. She has been Secretary of State for Transport since Gordon Brown formed his first cabinet in July 2007, and she denies that her resignation is a display of dissatisfaction with the Prime Minister’s leadership.
The cabinet reshuffle in which Ms Kelly will resign from the government could come as early as next week, after the Conservative party conference in Birmingham.
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Re: Kelly quits as transport secretary
So - What are you saying?
You don't like her then?
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Re: Kelly quits as transport secretary
Pity the whole Cabinet don't resign to spend more time with their families............... As a failed Education Minister Ruth Kelly was just another make-weight at Transport who did neither harm nor good, just followed Gordon Brown's instructions (read EU here, if you like) whilst showing no initiative. Since New Labour came to power they have singularly failed to make much impact on the important issues in the Transport field and simply regarded the motorist as another unprotesting source of income via newer and more inventive forms of taxation, whilst not managing to address any of the important issues. It would be nice to see a motoring enthusiast, or at least someone who drives, being appointed to this post, but I guess that would be wishful thinking....