Resignation of the British Secretary of Defense

  Ben Wallace has officially resigned from his post as UK Defense Secretary four years after taking up the post, writing to the UK Prime Minister to allow UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to announce his successor. Wallace was appointed head of the British defense establishment in 2019 by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. “After much deliberation, I have decided to ask permission to resign from my position,” says the official letter addressed to the Prime Minister. Sunak accepted his resignation. The defense department will be headed by the Minister of Energy Security and Climate Neutrality Grant Shapps.

The Conservative Party representative has been a Member of Parliament since 2005. In an interview with the Times in July, Wallace confirmed his intention to leave politics in the fall as part of a planned reshuffle in the British government. He said he wanted to return to life outside government and would be happy to work in a pub. The politician advocated providing large-scale military assistance to Kyiv. In particular, as Wallace said in July, Britain exceeded its plan for the supply of artillery shells by 15 times, but the volume of supplies of small arms and anti-tank ammunition to Kiev, in his words, “turned out to be less than planned.”