Copeland MP Trudy Harrison will not be standing in the next general election, the local Conservative Party has revealed.
The Whitehaven and Workington Conservative Association has confirmed that Mrs Harrison will not be standing for the new Whitehaven and Workington seat.
A selection process is currently underway by the newly formed Whitehaven and Workington Conservative Association, with members expected to select their parliamentary candidate next month.
The new Whitehaven and Workington seat, created under boundary changes will see the current Copeland and Workington constituencies scrapped.
Mark Jenkinson, the MP for Workington, has been selected as the Conservative candidate for the new Penrith and Solway seat.
Trudy Harrison has been the Conservative MP for Copeland since February 2017.
She was appointed a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in September last year.
Prior to that, she held the roles of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Transport and Parliamentary Private Secretary to former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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