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New tourism minister needed as Huddleston switches job

Government
Tom Parry
21 September 2022

Conservative MP Nigel Huddleston has left his position as tourism minister to take up a new role within recently installed prime minister Liz Truss’s government.

Huddleston faced industry anger after his comments in a heated interview with TTG editor Sophie Griffiths in December 2020

Huddleston, who entered Parliament in 2015 as MP for Mid Worcestershire and was formerly head of travel at Google, has moved from the Department of Media, Digital, Media & Sport to the Whips’ Office.

During his tenure as tourism minister, Huddleston faced industry anger after his comments in a heated interview with TTG editor Sophie Griffiths in December 2020.