(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Ndon July 15 (QNA) - William Hague has stood down as UK foreign secretary and will stay in the cabinet as Leader of the Commons Downing Street has said.
Hague is to leave Parliament at the 2015 general election after 26 years as MP for Richmond North Yorkshire.
As part of a significant ministerial reshuffle veteran Conservative MP Ken Clarke has also stepped down.
Senior ministers told the (BBC) that the current defense secretary Philip Hammond will replace Hague.
Labour described the reshuffle as "the massacre of the moderates".
Prime Minister David Cameron said: "William Hague has been one of the leading lights of the Conservative Party for a generation leading the party and serving in two cabinets.
"He will remain as First Secretary of State and my de facto political deputy in the run up to the election - and it is great to know that he will be a core part of the team working to ensure an outright Conservative victory." (QNA)
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