Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union

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Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union
Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (HM Government).svg
Department for Exiting the European Union
Style Brexit Secretary
(informal)
The Right Honourable
(within the UK and the Commonwealth)
Member of Cabinet
Reports to Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Seat Westminster, London
Appointer The Monarch
on advice of the Prime Minister
Term length At Her Majesty's pleasure
Formation 13 July 2016
First holder David Davis

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The position was created at the outset of the premiership of Theresa May, who became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on 13 July 2016.[4] May reportedly ordered civil servants to find a building to house a new Department for Exiting the European Union, to be headed by the Secretary of State.[5] The headquarters of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) at Whitehall Place, which was to be vacated once the DECC was merged into the newly created Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, was viewed as a potential site for the department.[3] The department now occupies 9 Downing Street.

The inaugural holder was David Davis MP,[4] a longtime Eurosceptic who campaigned for the UK to leave the EU.[6] Davis is a former chairman of the Conservative Party who served in the government of John Major as Minister of State for Europe (1994–97) and in the Shadow Cabinet of David Cameron as Shadow Home Secretary.[7]

Davis resigned on 8 July 2018 shortly before midnight; Dominic Raab was appointed on 9 July as his replacement and resigned on 15 November 2018.[8] Stephen Barclay, who had been serving as Minister of State for Health, was selected as Raab's successor on the 16 November 2018.[9]

List of Secretaries of State for Exiting the European Union

Colour key (for political parties):
      Conservative

Portrait Name Term of Office Party Prime Minister Ref.
75px David Davis
MP for Haltemprice and Howden
13 July 2016 8 July 2018 Conservative Theresa May [10]
75px Dominic Raab
MP for Esher and Walton
9 July 2018 15 November 2018 [11]
75px Stephen Barclay
MP for North East Cambridgeshire
16 November 2018 Incumbent [9]

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