{"id":61991,"date":"2020-02-14T11:29:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T03:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61991"},"modified":"2020-02-14T11:29:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T03:29:14","slug":"update-sajid-javid-resigns-as-chancellor-after-refusing-to-sack-aides-as-ordered-by-pm-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61991","title":{"rendered":"Update: Sajid Javid resigns as chancellor after refusing to sack aides as ordered by PM Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Chancellor Sajid Javid<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LONDON, Feb 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Sajid Javid has resigned as chancellor as Boris Johnson carries out a post-Brexit cabinet reshuffle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Javid rejected an order to fire his team of aides, saying “no self-respecting minister” could accept such a condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has been replaced as chancellor by Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rishi Sunak – who just seven months ago was a junior housing minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Javid had been due to deliver his first Budget in four weeks’ time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former home secretary was appointed chancellor by Johnson when he became prime minister in July, making him the shortest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His resignation follows rumors of tensions between Javid and the prime minister’s senior adviser Dominic Cummings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“He has turned down the job of chancellor of the exchequer,” a source close to Javid, who had been expected to remain in place, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The prime minister said he had to fire all his special advisers and replace them with Number 10 special advisers to make it one team. The chancellor said no self-respecting minister would accept those terms.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunak, 39, was educated at Winchester College and Oxford University, after which he went on to found an investment firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2015, he was elected MP for Richmond, North Yorkshire, replacing former Conservative leader William Hague.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunak became a housing minister in 2018, before being promoted to chief secretary to the Treasury last July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arriving at the Treasury, Sunak said he was “delighted to be appointed” chancellor and had “a lot to get on with”. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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