Graham Stuart: Who Is The New Climate Minister?

MP Graham Stuart has been appointed as climate minister by new Prime Minister Liz Truss who will support new energy secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg. Graham Stuart replaces Greg Hands, who took to twitter to express his views, saying he is “disappointed to be leaving the government.”

Before his appointment, Stuart attended Cambridge University and was the minister of state at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office from 7 July 2022 and joined the Department for International Trade in January 2018.

In Parliament, Stuart chaired the Education Select Committee between 2010 and 2015 and was assistant government whip with responsibility for the Department of Health, and later for HM Treasury and the Ministry of Defence between 2016 and 2018. Stuart voted in favour of remaining in the EU in the 2016 referendum.

Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness, has recently described climate change on his blog as “one of the greatest challenges we will face in this lifetime” and will focus on renewable energy production such as offshore wind and green hydrogen which is important to the industries in his constituency. The Net Zero Strategy, carbon budgets, industrial decarbonisation and nuclear power are just a few other areas that Stuart within the climate minister’s portfolio.